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A few people have mentioned information density as being important. I've got the 'Stylish' chrome extension installed with a userstyle for hn which looks like t
by XLcommerce 14y ago
A few people have mentioned information density as being important. I've got the 'Stylish' chrome extension installed with a userstyle for hn which looks like this:
table > tbody > tr:nth-child(3) > td{-webkit-column-count: 2;
}
2 column layout is v.cool. Makes the front page as well as the comments section much more readable for me.
example: http://imgur.com/a/oidEM#1 http://imgur.com/a/oidEM#1
- dhx 14y agoIt is easier for a user to scroll down a long continuous list than to hop back and forth between two columns. This is particularly true for ordered lists (as is the case with HN). The only thing I strongly dislike about HN's current design is that comment line lengths are far too long[1]. [1] http://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability http://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability
- XLcommerce 14y agoIt reads like a newspaper. You read one column at a time. No hopping between columns.