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Currently, all posts are displayed on the homepage. For a blog with a large archive, this could prove to be quite unwieldy.

The theme should support some form of pagination. Subsequent pages should not include the large full-screen title splash, else navigating between pages would be rather cumbersome.

To make it easier for users to start a blog with this theme, it should include a basic template for an RSS feed.

Just two items from Lighthouse that may impact score and performance could be added, they are:

• font-auto attribute to load text before the font loads
• <meta> description attribute (maybe with variable added to _config.yml

I added this in my instance, leaving it up as suggestion.

License info should also include:

1. License for the graphics
2. License for the font

First out: Great looking theme! Thanks for making it open source.

Describe the bug
Some flicker/glitch in white at the bottom and top of the page when scrolling.

To Reproduce
Choose a longer article. Scroll in "skim reading" pace, now and then you should see a white flicker. Both scrolling down and up again.

Expected behavior
No flicker when scrolling. It seems to work in Firefox.

Screenshots
Example in this video https://share.cleanshot.com/v4mhuY

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Mac OS
• Browser: Chrome and Brave
• Version: Latest versions.

Smartphone (please complete the following information):

• Device: [e.g. iPhone6]
• OS: [e.g. iOS8.1]
• Browser [e.g. stock browser, safari]
• Version [e.g. 22]

Additional context
Add any other context about the problem here.

Currently, Hitchens only supports long-form posts with a title. Ideally, it would also allow for shorter posts and/or posts without a title.

My thinking at the moment for how to accomplish this would be to present micro posts in the same “Table of Contents” on the homepage, but display excerpts rather than the full post where currently the post title is displayed.

To make it easier for users to start a blog with this theme, it should include a basic template for a JSON feed.

Users of this theme should have the option of displaying post excerpts under the post titles in the post list. This might require a slight redesign of the post titles in the list, but we can work on that as we build out this feature.

It should probably be a setting in the _config.yml file, probably a boolean called show_excerpts. Though, I'm open to other possibilities!

Pat, I used your JSON feeds as the basis for my own. Here are the gists I have for a feed.json (which has all the long form blog posts) and a micro.json (which has short posts only):

https://gist.github.com/bmann/38b54d893d506d2eb8bb8b325eafaccf

A note: right now, the micropub server I'm using defaults to setting category of short posts to "social", which I couldn't fix, so I just changed it in my Jekyll install.

Also, because of some of the rest of the Jekyll theme that I inherited, I purposefully don't include title in the micro feed.

Lastly, my theme / setup supports a date modified field, so I included that.

The validator for checking feeds is here: http://validator.jsonfeed.org/

(and apologies for not having a Pull Request for you, a lot of this stuff ends up being pretty blog specific)

The leading for headings is inconsistent. This should be fixed in order to improve the vertical rhythm of the page.

Describe the bug
The linked photo on the about page seems to have disappeared.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to https://patdryburgh.github.io/hitchens/about.html
2. See missing image

Jekyll (or specifically, kramdown) supports footnotes. It would be nice to have formatting for it.

Here's an example of the generated HTML from a footnote:

<div class="footnotes">
  <ol>
  <li id="fn:emailteam">
  <p>I wrote a <a href="https://speakerdeck.com/">presentation about email at companies</a> that I should revisit and add Missive to. <a href="#fnref:emailteam" class="reversefootnote">&#8617;</a></p>
  </li>
  </ol>
</div>

I tried changing the color value in /_sass/_variables.scss but the background color remains unchanged. What am I doing wrong?

Hey, I'm using this theme and got this weird situation, a friend uses Samsung and in their native browser this is how the site loads:

Any ideas on how to prevent or to adapt to a dark theme?

Right now, the demo site only displays 3 posts. It should display more posts and the required paginator settings should be added to the _config.yml file so users can see how pagination works with this theme.