Never read a newspaper?

(Not GP poster.) I don't really have a problem with masonry layouts, but a newspaper is limited by the paper size and they have incentive to squeeze everything in there (to maximize the spread of "information"). The screen is theoretically infinite (although not for kiosks).

I do have a website with a lot of images, and at the moment everything is in a 3-across grid layout...

	▲	satvikpendem 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The screen is infinite but information should still be prioritized, that is why newspapers use different sizes of headings. If they truly wanted to jam everything in there, they'd use the same small font size and save on paper, but that's not what people like because they want to see at a glance what is important and what's not, and that's done by the font size initially. This is no different on an infinite screen, the design principle of information prioritization still holds.

▲

ray_v 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, I have. Printed, which is fundamentally, and literally a different media type with different properties

▲

satvikpendem 2 days ago | parent [-]

Someone else said the same thing which I addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46331586#46334242

TLDR: in the user's eyes, a newspaper and this sort of layout are not very different, if the average user can navigate the former for hundreds of years, they can navigate the latter.

▲

ray_v 2 days ago | parent [-]

Ok, but the fact of the matter is that a digital display rendering a webpage and a physical format of a newspaper are fundamentally different media and should be treated as such. A wall of text isn't fundamentally a bad thing, but on a display monitor (or god help you, a cellphone or tablet) that's a terrible user experience.

	▲	satvikpendem 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, you can treat them differently, but for certain use cases and layouts, you can treat them the same. It all depends on what you're trying to do.