This design makes a huge assumption, that HN readers find more value in thumbnails than in... almost anything else.

That assumption is wrong for me and I suspect for most other HN users.

it's more common now to have image in post as more user prefer multimedia content over plain text content. At last it comes to personal preferences of user but our UI is just some enhancement to give user an alternative who are not happy with current HN interface.

There is no way to comment?

its a onging project so all the features like login, post, comment are under development atm.

hn.devss.io is the site.

Idk but hacker news redirecting to our main home page.

Can I suggest that not literally using the SS logo might be a good first step, if you want to avoid Nazi connotations? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel

hn.devss.io is our webapp for hackernews. Page is redirecting to our home page which is not developed yet and the logo is discarded. Our developer will remove that logo from page. Sorry for that.

It's fixed now