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The newspaper-like multicolumn design is quite fun. For some reason, it's very rarely used online.

I'm not sure it's an improvement over the standard 1 column, but it's also refreshing to see people doing these kinds of experiments.

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It's hard to get right, sadly. On this page here, I have to scroll down to see the last quarter of a column and then immediately after scroll up again to read the start of the following column.

I love these kinds of layout, but I dont know how to get them to work properly.

I like how it adjust the number of columns to the width of your browser window instead of hard-coding a width (that too many web sites do).

I'd rather scroll up and down for each new column than left and right for each new line.

I'd love an easy to use method of putting markdown into this layout

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