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Reduced nesting in the thread view

The proposal is to consider having less nesting in the thread view (while retaining the tree-like structure) for easier readability, optimized for the most common scenario where a long chain of replies gets flatten out (similarly to the twitter thread view).

The logic is roughly the following:

  • The first reply (to any post) is displayed under its parent post (not nested).
  • The second and Nths replies are nested / branched out (except for root replies).

(At the root level, the top level replies are visually separated from each other by not having the visual line connecting them together)

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Example (each post has only one reply)

Before:

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After:

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Edited by Eugenij