Hudson Reid

Most people use Product Hunt primarily for launching their product, which is completely understandable and a basic thing. That's what the platform is best known for.

BUT I think Product Hunt offers far more opportunities than just launch day. If you approach it strategically, it can become an ongoing marketing channel rather than a one-day event.

The one where your email finally gets to use the whole window instead of huddling in a 840px column on the left like it's 2009.

Every fix below is the work of @gildas-refacto in #29 who not only found three pixel-level bugs we'd been staring past for months, but wrote commit messages more thorough than most postmortems. Thank you.

Fixed

• The reading pane is now the reading pane. We were capping the message at 840px wide, which meant a big monitor bought you one skinny column of text, a lot of empty pane, and a scrollbar floating somewhere in the middle of the screen. Cap's gone. The mail gets the room.

• Wide emails are no longer quietly guillotined. Some senders lay their newsletters out wider than that old column allowed, and the overflow just didn't exist. No scrollbar, no hint, no right-hand edge. Now a too-wide message scrolls sideways inside its own frame like a civilized document.

• The message stopped growing 8 pixels every time you resized the window. Turns out the frame was measuring its own height, adding a margin, then measuring that, then adding the margin again a small ouroboros of blank canvas piling up under your email, one resize at a time. 788 812 836 860, same mail. It now measures the actual content, lands flush, and stays put.

• Bonus side effect: with that 8px gone, the mail's rounded bottom corners are rounded again. Small thing. Bugged us.