All that would make sense if I were reading the page but here I'm scanning the titles to find the few stories of interest in a forest. Optimizing for scanning shouldn't require so much scrolling and Load more.
I don't think it's possible to make everyone happy here. I find it a lot faster and easier to scan the titles when there's more whitespace between them. If they're too close together, I'll end up constantly losing my place and rereading the same ones multiple times, or accidentally read two lines at the same time. I can't be the only person with this problem.