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It looks like the code viewing area was narrowed. If the redesign was meant to put more focus on content, this decision is perplexing.

I wish they'd make a responsive design that would make use of my 24" monitor. Right now I've resorted to writing a Chrome plugin to widen the code viewing area via CSS.

http://github.com/sauravc/github_wideload

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> It looks like the code viewing area was narrowed.

Doesn't look like it[1].

I'm not sure that a much wider github would be of use to me. Most projects usually place some kind of limitation on the number of characters per line and even in the file browser I don't find filenames long enough to take that kind of space. Maybe you have some other use cases worth sharing?

[1] https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/1354/660780/2e217312-d715-...

My team's inherited code (legacy code) where not all lines are trimmed to 80 or even 120 chars. Long file names or deeply nested directories aren't something I run into currently, but I recall running into them on several J2EE apps in the past.

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