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[Suggestions] General structural thoughts
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Hi! Really loving Biscuit a lot, feels very polished. I have some thoughts on structure that are probably things you've already considered, but I feel like they're preventing me from enjoying the app fully.

  • Displaying content inline with comments. Biscuit does this really nicely for images, but because I quite like thin-ish (think two per landscape page) columns, it's often hard to see an image properly. Have you considered fixing the 'title' comment at a larger width than the rest of the columns? This might also give you an opportunity to give it a more obvious hierarchy (bigger title?). If this would also enable you to display webpages inline that'd be fantastic.

  • Displaying the list of Reddit links inline with the opened thread. I'm sure you're aware that this is how AlienBlue does it. Biscuit in particular feels great for giving you a sense of how far you've dug into a comment thread. The fact that this doesn't extend to the base levels of Reddit (Subreddits > Items > Comments) makes it feel a bit separate and less of an integrated experience to me. If the whole thing were executed in the same way as comments are now I think it could perhaps be better.

  • Scrolling comments. I cannot for the life of me understand why scrolling comments doesn't work as independent columns. If I scroll the child parents of a comment, it makes much more sense for me to continue viewing the same parent comment alongside all of its children, rather than random other (greyed out) comments. Furthermore, when I want to continue reading in the parent column I have to scroll back up to where I was. I'm aware that there are gestures that jump to the parent but I feel like they're a workaround for an illogical system. It would make sense for me to highlight the dug-down comment, open the child comments in an independently scrolling comment, and leave the other comments in the parent thread black so I can continue to read them without having to do a gesture if I want.

Are these things that you've avoided because you don't think they're the right way to go, or have you not considered them, or are they in your plans for the future? Would love to hear your reasoning; though I really like the Biscuit design paradigm on the whole I feel like these sticking points are what's keeping me from using Biscuit full time. I'm aware that a lot of what I describe is more AlienBlue-like behaviour; are you avoiding that? Or do you think I only want that because it's what I'm used to?

Sorry for the long post! I hope it was clear.

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