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The purpose of the container layout is to displace the whitespace that existed in the middle of the posts and comments and the sidebar to the outsides so everything was in the middle and didn't require much cursor movement to go from one side to the other. Prior to a few changes with image expandos, there was a
max-widthvalue for comments to prevent lines from getting too long and making it hard to read. With that max width that was in place, there was little difference in terms of whitespace between the container layout and the full-width.The reason it is not an option to go back to the full-width layout is because of that missing
max-widthvalue (and also because the whitespace would separate everything again). Basically, there is no logical reason to go full-width anymore. Which is why if users want that inferior layout, they will need to add it via a third-party plugin, addon, or extension.
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[–] el_hombre ago
This would probably be best if asked in /v/voatdev, but my guess (without opening F12 because I am on mobile) is a bootstrap hack or something.