HP has narrowed the width of our hubs.

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   paradigmsearchposted 9 years ago

   Or am I wrong?
   
   I just noticed that a bunch of my purdy 2-line title hubs are now 3-line titles. Checked with latest versions of IE and Firefox I did.
   
   I have no idea when/if this was done.
   
   I'm not particularly perturbed by this. Just thought it was worth commenting on.
   
   Sure is a lot of dead, blank space on both sides of the hub though...
   
   Frankly, I hope I am wrong. No way for me to get them back to 2-line without killing off a keyword.

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      kenneth averyposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I have not noticed, but I appreciate the information very much.

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   RockyMountainMomposted 9 years ago

   My input on this is very non-universal.  It is hard for me to read articles with too much media already, because of the way text gets squished to one side.
   
   I try to write text that is less block-y when I write about Lyme disease, because so many Lyme patients have neuro symptoms and can't read blocks longer than a line or two. 
   
   I've learned now that this is true with a lot of illnesses because of cognitive function and eye problems.
   
   So the basics regarding avoiding big blocks of text are especially true for those folks.  Even without a newly lessened width, hubs tend to end up with 'squished' feeling text, even with relatively decent paragraph sizes . 
   
   Again, not universal, but an aspect of hub formatting that is already a little harder than it needs to be (we can only make sections so short while still expressing our points and meeting recommended word minimums).
   
   It does seem a shame to have squished text beside so much dead space.  I think I'm less inclined to use those giant  share buttons (though they do look really clean, crisp and accessible now) if my eyes are struggling with the text.

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   Paul Edmondsonposted 9 years ago

   We haven't changed the Hub layout in quite some time, but I hear the comment often that Hubs are too narrow.  We hope to look at doing some design work in 2015.  This will be on the agenda:)

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      paradigmsearchposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you very much for getting back to me. I understand the methodology. I am reasonably certain that just a few more characters would be better, but I don't have the information resources you do.

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   rebekahELLEposted 9 years ago

   It is rather narrow, except on Editor's Choice hubs.  For some reason on my desktop all EC hubs have larger text and are wider in width site wide.  I asked about it once in the forums, but Matt said they're all the same.  It's kind of strange.

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