[lapcat]

Also, showing the excerpts from the post text is vastly superior to just showing the post titles.

[viermalbe]

I currently work on a feature to show excerpts (and read time) in the list views as well. But I will wait with the deployment until the Hacker News visitor wave has calmed down.

[lapcat]

> and read time

If anything, I would recommend a word count instead.

Word count is objective. Read time is subjective, variable, just an estimate, and probably based on word count anyway.