[meeera]

When I first hit your article, all I can see is a title with author and date. That pisses me off right there - Why do I have to go below the fold just to access your opening paragraphs? It's virtually a splash screen, and those need to be killed with fire.

I scroll below that, and all I get on a screen (unless I go down to an unreadably small font) is ten lines. I scroll down further, and not only do your design choices mean I get far less text on a screen than is optimal for me, but you've chosen to force a fixed header on me, which I can't get rid of. Your text scrolls up underneath this forced title bar, and it reduced the number of lines per screen even further. Your margins are wide, meaning there's lots of glarey whitespace. This was also distracting - I ended up narrowing my browser window to reduce it. I have no idea what your "X minutes left" appearing-and-disappearing floating window is meant to add to the experience, except to double my annoyance - I can see how far along I am in my scrollbar, I don't need your estimates of time remaining forced on me either, and every time a webpage element appears or disappears it grabs reader focus.

So you've got a mish-mash of 'minimalistic' design, excessive line spacing and other whitespace, combined with pointless widgets that either distract and annoy, appear and disappear, or break conventional expectations of how websites should behave.

And your images are way too large for the text they're embedded in, further emphasising the feeling of seeing a blown-up smartphone screen.

Then your homescreen - only five posts? OK, again, each to their own, but can web readers really not be trusted with 7-10 on your home screen? And why no website title at the top, as any blog reader expects?

Yours is by no means the worst website I've ever encountered, don't get me wrong. But you did ask.

(And this is coming from someone who's rather a fan of relatively minimalistic design!)