I think it's way more responsive, which is good. Hoowever, the increased use of horizontal space makes it harder to read (imagine HN without the blank sides) a

I think it's way more responsive, which is good. Hoowever, the increased use of horizontal space makes it harder to read (imagine HN without the blank sides) and I believe the information density has been lost a notch way too much. All in all I think I prefer the previous design because to me information readability comes first. It actually becomes pretty decent if you zoom out to 80% in Firefox although the text becomes a tad too small. I believe making an extension to increase information density shouldn't be too hard.