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Comment by danso | Hacker News Reader

Powerful content. At the risk of being pedantic, I think the site would be a better service to its content by using a standard vertical scroll layout. I viewed many of the photos but found it too easy to stop because of the difficulty in side scrolling

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I totally missed it. If it weren't for your I wouldn't even see it. There's only a "scroll right >" in a very light grey and small font.

Including a bigger arrow icon after the right photo would help.

I think the content is better suited to a horizontal layout because of its shape.

You can argue against the usability of it if you wish, but I think Javascript hijacking the scroll wheel and converting scrolling vertically to scrolling horizontally would be really useful in this case.

Agreed. Great site, but just noticed that when one of the pics is missing, it tries to fit another pic on the same screen and looks pretty nasty. Reloaded page and can't reproduce unfortunately, but it was part of: http://beforeidieiwantto.org/india_gujarat.html

The inability to scroll left/right kills it. Also, some of the text from the top bleeds between the pictures at 1366x768.

I would have to second this, I actually didn't know it was horizontal scrolling. Great stuff though, like the aesthetics!

A nice hover scroll effect (not sure if that is the correct term) like browsing netflix would be great.

Agreed, great content being hidden by poor usability.

whats wrong with horizontal scroll? If a site has both horizontal and vertical scroll, the site looks messy! Horizontal scroll is also good to scroll pictures.

You cannot use a scroll wheel, which is annoying enough.

I held down shift and used my scroll wheel.

I know you can use Ctrl+Scroll with a touchpad but does it not work with a normal mousewheel?

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