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It works really well. But, I consider anyone who finds the dense grid display easier than browsing down a list a savant; I have trouble focusing on just one thumbnail in the sea of others. Wasn't there a recent article about the merits of list vs box display?

Anyhow, if I narrow my window down, it looks great and my complaints go away, so good work.

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> Wasn't there a recent article about the merits of list vs box display?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3223092

I've begun to suspect the same thing. I'd love to read that article if you can find the link.

I'll add "Single-column mode" to my to-do list. I think I will also make the "Large preview mode" default as well for much the same reason.

I built the whole thing thinking a lot of thumbnails would be awesome. Which is funny because, now that it is built, I agree that it can be distracting. Oops!

I love the idea, and if you default it to those I agree it will be better. I had the same thoughts of 'i can't focus, nothing looks good to me'.

User westiseast posted a blog post[1] about A/B testing a grid vs. list product displays on his online tea shop, Min River Tea, which lead to a pretty good discussion on the topic[2].

[1] http://westiseast.co.uk/blog/product-listing-ab-test-results... [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3223092

I feel the same way, it's nice on my smartphone because the thumbs are pushed into one column.

Themeforest is great, and I browse their templates weekly, if not daily, but what's with 99% of web themes having 400px high sliders on the index pages, sheesh!

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