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How do people feel about white space in web design?
There has been this ongoing trend of massive amounts of white space, where it's basically a single sentence per screen. I find the experience awful on desktop. But only mildly annoying on mobile.
I'm also trying to find professional web design blogs or posts that point out how annoying this trend is. Instead all designers seem to have nothing but nice things to say about white space. Rather than making me think I'm wrong for going against all designers I instead just think the whole profession is wrong.
It's awful. We truly live in a dark (or too bright) time.
Consider New Reddit:
Substack is even worse:
Can anyone familiar with design explain why we can't have stuff like the old slatestarcodex blog back? It worked just fine on mobile. If the text is too small, you just pinch zoom the screen a bit.
It's 80% white space if you only count wide open space. It's more like 95% or more when you consider how much space there is around everything. For example, look at the ridiculously large orange shape around the New note button. There's no reason for it to be that big. There's no reason for the items on the menu above it to be spaced so far apart.
I agree the old Slate Star Codex website was a really well designed.
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