Easier horizontal scroll in Kanbans

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When looking at a Kanban of a Github Project, some columns may be horizontally out of view. I need to go pick the thin bottom scrollbar to slide it sideways and see other columns.

This is really slow and feels like friction. My Kanban has 6 columns and I always have either to leftmost one out of view, or the right-most one... it's annoying.

If I'm using a touchpad, it's easy to scroll horizontally with a two-finger drag. But when using the mouse, having to use the scroll bar is a nuisance.

Suggestion: allow dragging sideways, starting from empty column space

So, if I point my mouse to any empty space in a Kanban column (the beginning of the red arrow in my image) and drag sideways, the columns scroll horizontally.

This is a natural movement, very intuitive, and it's much easier to start the movement without having to carefully find the thin bottom scrollbar. Which, to make things worse, is a disappearing-when-not-use- scrollbar (worst thing ever invented in terms of UI, but I digress).

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[AnshNikhare]

Great suggestion—this would definitely make navigating wider Kanban boards much smoother, especially for mouse users. The current reliance on the thin, sometimes-hidden horizontal scrollbar does add friction, and your idea for click-and-drag scrolling from empty column space would be a big usability improvement.

In the meantime, here are a couple of workarounds that might help:

• You can use Shift + mouse wheel to scroll horizontally on most browsers.
• If you’re open to browser extensions, there are tools that can customize or enhance scroll behavior in web apps.

I’d encourage you to upvote similar feedback and keep sharing these ideas—usability improvements like this benefit a lot of users. Hopefully, GitHub considers adding this intuitive drag-to-scroll feature in a future update!