This isn't designed for the single-digit percent of people who use RSS feeds. It's a UI/UX resource; treat and critique it as such. It's a way of presenting data to people who aren't going to spend time to create their own interface.
Setting aside the content[0], the first impression is poor. The page title and description eat the entire above-the-fold area, and the pointless background color animation grinds on at 2fps with Chrome on a i7@3.1 GHz MacBook Pro.
[0] Which seems okay, if a bit lightweight and vague. Could use an editor and a proofreader ("Abbreviations are you ally in feeds").
Runs completely fine on my MacBook which is pretty low-specced compared to your setup it seems. The gradient is unnecessary, but it's still running at 15fps.
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[ 222 ms ] story [ 217 ms ] thread[0] Which seems okay, if a bit lightweight and vague. Could use an editor and a proofreader ("Abbreviations are you ally in feeds").
I personally really like Unsplash' integration and design: https://getstream.io/case_studies/unsplash/
This is scary, isn't it?