@dariusk @darius@friend.camp Thanks for sharing this, I think it's fantastic that this is already adopted in a Mastodon fork.

May I ask whether there have been attempts in the past to get these changes back upstream to Mastodon?

cc @renchap@oisaur.com

@julian This was ~4 years ago but I asked someone on the team (I forget who) if it would be a welcome PR and I was told that it probably wouldn't be, so I didn't make the PR.

Of course that was a long time ago! Also of note, this was completely and totally a hack and I don't think my actual implementation is what I would want to put upstream at this point. What's more interesting is that it hasn't been the cause of any UI concerns; basically what you postulate above, that the "hide long content behind a cut" functionality pretty much solves the problem, is true.

@dariusk I may be overly optimistic, but I'd like to move forward thinking that perhaps that was then and this is now.

Let's chat tomorrow (?) about the merits of your implementation and see whether we can make some waves!