OK, well I'd never noticed that blog network before. Well congrats anyway to the artist behind that - a great looking, minimalist design.
The thing that annoys me most about it is the "kudos" thing that animates on mouse-over. I've accidentally "given" kudos a couple of times before I figured out what it was so I could avoid it.
Wow, yes, that is awful... it's not even completely clear after you've triggered it that giving 'kudos' is what you've done.
It is pretty sweet on mobile. On the desktop it offends my sensibilities as much as, say, using HTTP GET to affect state.
what if the mouse-over triggered a POST?
Svbtle is invite-only, but there are some open source clones.