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   Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 21:46:17 JST Børge

   Who told search engines that this is a good UI on desktop?

   Can we get an alternative, please?

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 21:56:06 JST Børge

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     • Torb

     @torb Having to squint and crane your neck is not a good thing. 1) My eyes are at the middle of the screen. 2) Why do I have to turn the zoom level up to 150% for any and all search engines to be readable?

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     Torb (torb@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 21:56:08 JST Torb

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     @forteller It’s one of the UIs that’s still simple, focused and not overloaded with a million columns. That’s a good thing.

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Saturday, 25-Feb-2023 02:42:40 JST Børge

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     • mtjm

     @mtjm I'm thinking the alternative is a readable size on the text, based on the size of your screen, and having the column in the middle of the screen. I agree wide columns are bad.

     I don't know how Bing does it.

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     mtjm@m.mtjm.eu's status on Saturday, 25-Feb-2023 02:42:41 JST mtjm

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     @forteller The alternative, assuming you have a correct font size set in your system, is a multicolumn view (which also doesn't work with scrolling). Wider columns are hard to read, and too big letters (imagine a feature phone screen scaled to a desktop screen size) are hard too.

     But for me the Bing page looking like an AI-level collage of random interpretations of the query and other browsers just having a full screen of spam before any relevant results is a bad enough UI.