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Comment by knowaveragejoe | Hacker News Reader

Is anyone else confused by the layout of the article? In Chrome on a large monitor(27"@2560x1440) it's kind of difficult to intuit the order of reading.

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Yes, very disorienting. I zig-zagged my way down the page, unsure of where to focus next. Kind of like the Facebook timeline, but without the little ticks to indicate where each section fit in the order.

I kinda liked it; Even if you skip something the story is written in a way so it doesn't matter too much.

It sure is an interesting concept. I didn't really want to know all about North Korea. And somehow, thanks to the layout, I think that I got the general idea in a better way than I would have if it has been one big column.

It feels with an approximation algorithm that enables parallel processing to an usually linear task. It saves some time to get the general idea.

The page reminds me of when my wife and I watched Solaris (2002) without realizing our DVD player was on shuffle. We both enjoyed the nonlinear narrative for a good 45m before we realized what was wrong.

Fixing the problem seemed to make the movie worse for us.

Yes, it's very difficult to read. I keep switching context randomly as I try to take in everything on the screen before scrolling down.

It's equally difficult on a small (1366x768) monitor...

Not to mention there appears to be two section VII's.

It was terrible on my phone

Very confused. :/

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