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Can you please avoid blurring the prior column (or at least the comment you came from)? It's useful to see context that way.

Otherwise I think it's really good. Reddit should have aspired to something this well thought out.

(I'd also like page up / page down.)

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Seconding page up/down, first thing I tried.

Probably not to everyone's taste but I'd prefer for the active news item to be in the center of the screen and not at the top. I keep scanning down the page with my eyes and then realising I need to press down 20 times to get to where I scanned, I probably wouldn't scan so far ahead if it was vertically centered but also the page up/down would alleviate some of this.

Otherwise very refreshing and looking forward to see it iterated.

Good point. On a large screen most of the space is wasted: a blurred column on the left and empty space on the right.

This accounts for 2/3 of the of the space. Please use all of it :)

At some point during development you could actually see all the columns clearly and most of the screen space was used but it was very disorienting, at least for me. That's why I removed it. But I guess some people think differently, so maybe I'm gonna add an option for that.

Seconding the ask to reduce the space dedicated to the previous focus level (left of screen)

Thanks! You can now disable the blurring of previous elements/columns in the settings. And page up/down support also arrived with the latest update today.

I agree. I like the idea of visualizing previous item in some way, maybe faded instead? Should give the same effect.

The previous item (or parent comment) is always visible in the white box on top/above the current comment. But it's quite easy overlooked because the change from the article/link to the comment is not very noticable.

You can see the current parent comment on top in the white box as soon as you navigate 'into' a comment. It is truncated by default but you can toggle it with the P key.

Thank you!

Oh and page up / down is noted and will be added soon.

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