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[Feature Request] Compact mode for comments

I feel that comment section has too much excess space even with user logos, etc disabled. Compact mode for posts is perfect. I would love to have the same for comments.

For comparison on my iPhone mini screen, 7 comments on Voyager fits in the space that 4 comments on Mlem does

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  • We’ve got compact comments slated for 1.1, so they should be available in the next major release.

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  • Collapsed comments on Mlem still take up more space than expanded comments on another app.

    Also the layout and putting all the meta info in the middle does not help at all.

    I love Mlem, but I wish they would stop reinventing the wheel with how to display meta info/button and make a clean, consistent layout without too much wasted whitespace

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    • It also doesn't help that the interaction bar doesn't collapse with the comments lmao

      Re: design: as I mentioned above, compact comments are coming (and are probably going to be the default); the interaction bar is really nice from an accessibility standpoint because it doesn't hide the core interactions in swipes or menus, but does consume a lot of vertical space. We always shipped it with the intention of adding a slimmer comment mode, which we are about to merge and should be hitting the public beta soon. More generally, we were iterating our design aggressively to find a layout that is going to serve us well when we implement our big customization update (planned for 1.2, late August/early September). Some of the choices we've made should make some more sense then, and for the time being we're pretty happy with where the design has landed and don't foresee it changing much going forward (though it will be getting much more configurable).

      Your feedback--positive or negative--is, as always, greatly appreciated. Thanks for helping to improve our app!

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