Mixing them like so works, although it's hard because then it minimizes the size of topics (since it is just the title.) It means microblog content get a bit of a UI boost due to on screen size.

Limiting the max height of microblog posts and showing a snippet of the threaded content OP is another way, but that makes the page more feed-like and less of a "topic listing", which isn't always the way to go either.

For reference, NodeBB also mixes threads and microblog posts. We do this by generating a title from microblog posts. It's not the best solution either.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 3 points 6 days ago

Ye. Back when I used Feeder (some Android RSS reader), it was a similar struggle as each feed loads their data differently and I would try to find the least bad of the display modes.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago

Most of the "microblog" posts I'm seeing are pretty short. I seem to remember the images being way too big, though. I made a custom ublock rule or something to make both the lemmy ones and them equally small thumbnails just big enough to decide if I want to load a full-sized one. It's kept working for a year or something, I had forgotten it was there, but I guess it helps even more now.

Edit: Ah, found it. It's a firefox/librewolf userContent.css thing. Maybe something similar could be an mbin user configurable option some day.

@-moz-document domain("fedia.io") {
    .figure-thumb { max-height:90px !important; max-width:160px !important; overflow: hidden; }
    .view-compact .entry figure { height:90px !important; width: 160px !important} 
}