Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts

[auster@thebrainbin.org]

Must've been a recent change because somewhat frequently I'm using it on the go and just now it started appearing for me.

Also banners appear on the top of communities now too. =D

[julian@activitypub.space]

I've been looking into how to accomplish this too... because it is a UI/UX problem and I am very bad at designing user interfaces.

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.