Show HN: Horizontal News, a column-based Hacker News reader

[hammycheesy]

I really like this navigation model - it reminds me a little of the Panorama control [1] that Windows Phone attempted or the column-based, horizontally scolling UIs of the infamous Windows 8 Metro apps [2].

Sadly these more creative approaches seem to be forgotten in place of lazy hamburger menu/pages with back-stack style approaches.

[1] https://www.minddriven.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/wp7_pan...

[2] https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ytfp8btYCkR2rCpW9WS9u3.jpg

[chinpokomon]

I present to you, Smallest Federated Wiki: http://fed.wiki.org/view/welcome-visitors

[philsquared_]

Good job. I hope you expand on it more. Maybe consider a browser extension to convert other comment sections that arent hn. I always thought replies to parent comments shouldn't be prioritized over top level parent comments and this layout pushes that idea.

[tetris11]

Very pleasing experience, though I wonder what I'd think after 10 minutes of using it.

[iraldir]

Probably from users of more classical UI, this feels really unpleasant to me, like putting a tshirt backward. (not that it's a bad UI or anything, says more about me than your website)

[amadeuspagel]

Interesting idea, but using columns for nested threads is too clever by half. Have two columns, one for the main page, on for the thread, and display nested threads normally.

[kencausey]

This is interesting. One thing I miss is the domain information.

edit: Suggestion: add the domain information to the hover message.

[97-109-107]

Did you actively decide against applying independent per-column scrolling? If yes, what was your train of thought?

[joeframbach]

The columns scroll independently on my device.

[krembo]

Just jumping back to day i find myself using it daily! Awesome work!

[newhotelowner]

Use css snap to snap horizontal scrolling

[dlb007]

Look nice

[AhmadIbrahim]

This looks great.