Currently events have reminded me to revisit this charming little nook, but I have to say, the layout remains somewhat confusing after all this time to my lizard brain.
Most of of it just seems to stem from the lack of visual borders between elements in the interface, making it hard to make out where one post starts and another begins, or a comment hops in.
The spoiler/CW system, while great in theory; both to condense longer messages and hide potentially sensitive topics, remains a hurdle to me, as replies appear to inherit their previous post's "content warning" but, when instead used as an introduction by the author to the body of their post, leads to replies with "warnings" that seldom have much to do with their own said replies
@wyrm definitely a culture thing, but I wonder why it hasn't become more generally adopted to adjust the CW every post where applicable, since with a reply you can change or remove it - without breaking threading the way it would in an email/newsgroup thread. As a topic warning, it does make sense for it to keep itself by default.
@Snapai
Yeah. Honestly, I think it'd probably work a lot better if a toot/rar sent with a content warning automatically hid all replies to itself until the reader clicks to view it, at which point all replies are visible, instead of CW-ing them all by default, while still allowing for the individual user replying to add a content warning to their own reply if need be.