Ok, people. Just consider this post me crankily working through change acceptance and feel free to ignore it. But i'm trying out Feedly and it's got this three column layout that drives me nuts.

Look at all that wasted space. I'm getting claustrophobic reading this. I feel like someone is squeezing the sides of my head.

Compare to Google Reader.

Ahhhhh. Look how much more i can read without scrolling.

I'm not just picking on Feedly. There might even be some configuration option in Feedly i'm not aware of yet. But it's the default layout, and it's something you see a lot. TPM's front page has 3 columns (it used to have 4!) and it's also got fat margins on the side. For a while we got away from designing your websites to look like print magazine pages but with Mobile we seem to going back to it worse than ever.

I can kinda sorta understand it for the front page of a branded website. But for an RSS reader, you're going there to do some hardcore reading and you don't need all that extra crap. If you wanted that you can go to the actual website.

Anyway, to be self-aware, i know we sort-of have a 3-column website here at SuperMegaMonkey. But there's a lot more usable space. And i think seeing smiley faces as you scroll all the way down is a helpful balance to all the political crap and other random complaining we post here. And we also offer an RSS feed!

And on the comics blog, you can now turn off the left nav, giving you even more space.

but you love having the sides of your head squeezed