What is this new trend in website/portal layout?

Question

Design

For some time now, companies have started using layouts that don't look good on large screens. They are stuck to the left edge of the screen, there is a lot of empty space on the right, the eyes have to be squinted to the left.
I first noticed this on Google. And recently, this appeared at Lenta.ru with Alfa-Bank. Is this a new trend or what?

Answer 1

Is this a new trend or what?

Designer helplessness?

Answer 2

I don't know about others, but Google uses the right space to view the page cache.

Answer 3

Alfabank also has signs :) I don't know why they do it. Google - apparently for quick viewing (when the site screen pops up).

Answer 4

Also drew attention. Lazy layout for mobile browsers? In the phone (I’ll look at the iPad in the evening, but I think it will be the same), there is no white field either in landscape or portrait orientation.
And there were also a lot of jokes about the unlimited possibilities of self-filling the right side of the screen on Google+. For example, you can put a cactus there. :)

Answer 5

I think that at least Alpha will soon be updated and the site will be updated after a new alpha click .

Answer 6

Everything new is well-forgotten old :)
www.artlebedev.ru/everything/alfabank/site/ The first version of the Alfa-Bank website [The project is in the museum]
www.artlebedev.ru/everything/lenta/site/ The first version of the Lenta .ru” [The work is in the museum]

Answer 7

At one of the former jobs was exactly the same situation. When I asked why not move the content to the center so that it is convenient to view in a full-screen browser, the answer to me from a bunch of macs was: "And who expands the browser to full screen?"

Answer 8

I see it too, hehe. Even the monstrous and expensive site of the Bolshoi Theater sins with this. I don’t understand at all who prevents you from aligning everything in the center.

Answer 9

I just decided with Google - I added my userstyle

Answer 10

The current site of alpha-bank was developed in 2006, it is difficult to call it a new trend.

Answer 11

The new youtube design has the same feature/problem. habrahabr.ru/post/172305/ - here is one of the versions.

Answer 12

so many Lebedev designs sin like this

Answer 13

Well, Lebedev is popular enough to set a new stupid trend.
Most freelancers consider him their idol.
To be honest, let them do what they want, we have done and will do it in a way that is more convenient for the user.

Answer 14

%Designer_of_this_miracle%, is it hard to center? 'cry'