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Agreed - there is just too much information generally. I actually find the icons more distracting than the text.

The information on the left appears to be repeated in the subtitle for each entry. e.g. Points and visits. I'd get rid of all the icons and just have the simple data on the left.

You could also ditch some (many) of the icons. The clock next to the "two weeks ago" is redundant. Either make it a descriptive icon (e.g. indicating length of time) or text - having both feels like overkill... This is probably harsh, but right now the site feels like I'm looking at Wingdings in FontBook.

Think having top tags and top 10 side by side takes up too much horizontal realestate. I'd simply have the top 10 on top and the top tags below.

Probably a debatable point - But, I'd not bother with Google Ads on the front page - if you're going to have them, put them on the category pages.

The content of front page is going to have highly variable and as such the ads are probably going to be poorly targeted... At least with the category pages you'll have ads that are relevant and more likely to get clicks. It also declutters the front page, which is probably important as a first impression.

I'll work on the congested look of it. To differentiate ioncurr3nt from the cream of the crop, there's dynamic top tags listed on every single page, and they reflect the categories, tags, etc Maybe I'll emphasize the tags, almost like a six degree of separation- style game, to see where the tags will lead the user... Another thing is located in the author page. It lists the last 10 upvoted, downvoted, submitted, and FAVORITE articles. I'll emphazise that as well.