Should the width for the content be increased?

[MaikKlein]

First of all I am not a webdev.

I always felt that crates.io looks a bit cramped on my desktop machine.

For example this is how it currently looks

After I changed the width

Now it has the same size as Github. I personally think this would be an improvement, what do you think?

[carols10cents]

Having the README be the same width as GitHub, at least for crate show pages, would probably be nice. Not sure if that should extend to search pages or settings pages or the other pages we have, and if not, if it would be weird that the widths change...

[moonheart08]

Maybe make it.. not be fixed width? Please? Screen sizes above 16:9 really suffer, and a lot of screen space is wasted. Pictured is a 21:9 display viewing crates.io.

[miDeb]

There was already an issue for that (#970), but if you go to the linked page https://crates.io/crates/colorparse today, it looks more like the "before" in the gif of the closing pr #1064. Maybe that's even a regression?

[ibaryshnikov]

Hi all! What's the state of this issue? Any desire to make a change for wider screens? It looks like here's the place responsible for the docs width

crates.io/app/styles/crate/version.module.css

Lines 13 to 19 in 575b2fb

	.docs {
	@media only screen and (min-width: 890px) {
	flex: 7;
	padding-right: 20px;
	max-width: 640px;
	}
	}

[Turbo87]

we're slowly working towards a state of the code where we should be able to increase the width without too many issues :)

[ibaryshnikov]

Does it break something else when increased?

[Turbo87]

@ibaryshnikov yes, see #3687 (comment) for example 😅