Any three column format is more difficult to read, and not worth doing. The argument that "everybody else is doing it so we need to do as well" is a worthless substitute for reason.
If iHub wants to be the next financial messaging community to join Yahoo or RB message boards in the dustbin of history, then press on.
But I beg you not to do that. That would only leave SI as worth visiting, and until now I liked ihuvb better.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Upton Sinclair
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
H. L. Mencken