>>1530891
OP here. That looks like a lot of padding to me. I dunno, it may be one of those things where I need to let my eyes get used to it. The purpose of that page is to show condensed previews of threads, and when you open the thread, the posts are considerably larger.

I'm currently working on the "tribes / posts" buttons (picrel).
And yeah, category description text could be at the top like that one anon said. It originally used to be there.