Pet Peeve #43 – Horizontal Scrolling

Why is this a thing? What is wrong with just scrolling up and down? Who decided to design websites where instead of the next line just dropping down it just keeps goingandgoingand goingandgoingand goingandgoingand goingandgoingand goingandgoingand goingandgoingand goingandgoingandgoing →that way!? It frustrates me further that now we have all these widescreen monitors and I still stumble across this inexplicable mess of multidirectional scrolling. It’s unorganized, unattractive, and impractical. Whoever has been given the job of designing these websites is ill-equipped and I’m suspecting there may be a little nepotism behind this abomination.