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It 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
by dhx 15y ago
It 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 15y agoIt reads like a newspaper. You read one column at a time. No hopping between columns.