User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Prototype for a new article layout/@comment-1929113-20141211203546

There is too much wasted space. http://i.imgur.com/5BmXkvr.png compared to http://i.imgur.com/CPFibBI.png

I'm fairly certain 1080p monitors are not unheard of, though three of them together might be, that we are forced to have so much wasted space.