[Findings](/findings/index.md) / UX-002

# The home page is 59 phone screens long, with 845 links

Open · high severity · failure · newsroom.sgit.ai

## What we saw

The phone home page measures 49,715 px: Latest, Highlights, desk notes, collections, the full article list, then a map of every article's links.

## Why it matters

The front page tries to show everything, so it chooses nothing for the reader. Nobody scrolls 59 screens; the curation is invisible.

## The fix

Cut the home page to the lead, three per desk, collections and the newsletter. Lists and the link map move to their own pages.

## The record

| | |
| --- | --- |
| **Status** | Open |
| **Severity** | High |
| **Kind** | Failure: works against the reader |
| **Product** | [newsroom.sgit.ai](/findings/?product=newsroom.sgit.ai), site |
| **Where** | <https://newsroom.sgit.ai/> |
| **Problems** | [Overload](/findings/?problem=overload) |
| **Visibility** | [Obvious](/findings/?visibility=obvious): every reader sees it, every time they reach that point |
| **Recommendation** | [Cut to the essential](/findings/?recommendation=cut-to-the-essential): remove or move down everything that is not the lead, the doors and the next step |
| **Area** | [First visit](/findings/?area=first-visit) |
| **Breaks** | [The first screen is for a stranger](/principles/index.md#stranger-first-screen) |
| **Observed** | 2026-10-11, v0.6.4 |
| **Last checked** | 2026-10-11, v0.7.1 |
| **Source** | [Review: first visit](/reviews/newsroom-2026-10-11.md#first-visit-a-contact-arriving-from-a-link) |
| **Prototype** | [Front page & personas](/lab/index.md#newsroom-proto-front), route `front`, in three directions |

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