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By itself, a flexible width in a profile shouldn't be a problem. The issue in my profile was the positioning trick I used to get rounded corners under the Yuku footer while keeping everything in one box. I couldn't just throw background: #FFF onto the wrapper; I had to use it in several places. When I changed to the flex width, not enough stuff was white. With the addition of the new division, I can remove a couple of redundant background: #FFFs, but most of them need to stay.

Kristin did Brewerfan's skin with a flexible width two years ago, and we've kept it all along. I wouldn't be without it. I generally like to read messages in a narrow window; the line length is comfortable that way. If someone posts a wide chart using preformatted text or an HTML table, I can choose to stretch the window and break the content out of the scrollbar.

With the profile, I'll probably add a max-width. It looks kind of bizarre when it's stretched out over a 1600 pixel window, and there's no content that would ever necessitate that much horizontal space. I wouldn't add a max-width to a board, though. You wouldn't be able to lose the scrollbars in posts when you wanted to.