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I get this issue on Android Chrome when using the "Desktop Site" version. Personally, I believe the UX problem is with the website. You seem to be aware of the

I get this issue on Android Chrome when using the "Desktop Site" version. Personally, I believe the UX problem is with the website. You seem to be aware of the problem and yet decided to keep a broken version. That's a UX decision made by you. The web is top-to-bottom, every user has this expectation. The usual mouse has a top-to-bottom scroll wheel, not a left-to-right one. Maybe it's not what you want, but it is what it is. You can either accept that fact and use a top-bottom layout, or accept the fact that you made a deliberate decision to create a confusing UX.

WorldMaker 5y ago
I stated several comments up directly in this chain that a confusing UX on my personal blog was a deliberate decision. I stand by that. I also point out that I tried to add affordances to make it easier to use and was stymied by bad browser support getting worse. I haven't updated this CSS in a while, because I haven't felt like I needed to, but the way the browsers display it in 2021 is actively worse than when I wrote it and I'm sorry about that. I can also at the same time believe that Apple removing scrollbars altogether and not replacing them with some sort of affordance is also a UX crime, whether or not my own decisions that make are worsened because of it were deliberate.
- toomanydoubts 5y ago
  Well, it's good to see that you accept its your own decision, given the circumstances, that made it what it is. If you're set on that, maybe you could try adding a really unmistakable indicator such as a "Scroll right for more ->" text. I'm not sure if that's good as I'm not a UX/UI designer, but probably better than nothing. Still, as a user, a would prefer something that I'm used to, such as top-down text.
  - WorldMaker 5y ago
    When I wrote this CSS the columns themselves were supposed to do that and supposed to "peek" across the edges. Browsers decided to take a different, worse layout approach to multi-column and broke my intended CSS affordances. There wasn't intended to be "nothing". Just time and tech debt.

WorldMaker 5y ago

I stated several comments up directly in this chain that a confusing UX on my personal blog was a deliberate decision. I stand by that. I also point out that I tried to add affordances to make it easier to use and was stymied by bad browser support getting worse. I haven't updated this CSS in a while, because I haven't felt like I needed to, but the way the browsers display it in 2021 is actively worse than when I wrote it and I'm sorry about that. I can also at the same time believe that Apple removing scrollbars altogether and not replacing them with some sort of affordance is also a UX crime, whether or not my own decisions that make are worsened because of it were deliberate.

toomanydoubts 5y ago
Well, it's good to see that you accept its your own decision, given the circumstances, that made it what it is. If you're set on that, maybe you could try adding a really unmistakable indicator such as a "Scroll right for more ->" text. I'm not sure if that's good as I'm not a UX/UI designer, but probably better than nothing. Still, as a user, a would prefer something that I'm used to, such as top-down text.
- WorldMaker 5y ago
  When I wrote this CSS the columns themselves were supposed to do that and supposed to "peek" across the edges. Browsers decided to take a different, worse layout approach to multi-column and broke my intended CSS affordances. There wasn't intended to be "nothing". Just time and tech debt.