Cool concept with channels, but it took me over 7.5 seconds to load the front page with half of it before any visible content, and almost 2.5 seconds to load About. Also, hot-linking images is bad practice, it may be worth just getting rid of the images while you build out functionality. Are you planning on releasing the source for it?
The performance sucks. 30 out of 100 on chrome web vitals. We are overhauling it this week (including eliminating the post load). Great point about hotlinking images which I have taken a note of (also creates mixed content http issues). I didn't think there would be value in releasing the source. So hadn't thought about it. But now that you mentioned it, maybe I should.
