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I'm a fan of minimalism, but I'd tend toward something of a middle ground.

e.g. in the case of old digg, I'd go for something that added color to headlines to more clearly separate articles, de-emphasized the category/posted-by line, and narrowed the summary column.

too-wide blocks of text, too-close bunches of paragraphs and too-strict hit-boxes for buttons are pretty common on 'minimalist' sites and those drive me absolutely crazy anymore.

Too-small fonts also used to bother me, but browsers have largely resolved that. So long as minimalist design plays well with dynamic font scaling, that doesn't bother me anymore.