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by 0x0203 1103 days ago
For whatever it's worth, I personally like the screenshots of the pages that shows up when you browse random; I think it really helps in recognizing a site you may have been to before. If there were a way to incorporate that into all search results, along with a more information dense listing, I for one would find that quite useful. Kind of a 'I can't remember what it was called, but I'd recognize it if I saw it' sort of thing.

I also really appreciate the desire to use available screen space. It irks me to no end when a site forces a narrow column of info/content and wide empty borders wasting half or more of my screen. Wikipedia recently started doing this and I can't say they're better for it in my opinion.

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Just echoing this. I was looking for a site the other day, and I thought I'd use marginalia since it throws up interesting stuff in general, and the site I was looking for had a distinctive look that I knew I would recognise again ... and was disappointed the "magazine stand" view was only for the random sites.

I do like that feature.