You don't have to expand every post to check it out, this is just one view option
photon ui is nicer to use, and seems to work better on an older device, but still use hexbearUI because of the themes like darkly - if the links aren’t green and buttons aren’t pink it doesn’t feel like hexbear
haven’t looked into it, but if photon can get some 
colour theming it would be ideal - better a little janky but familiar than slick but bland
photon-ui is a superiour scrolling experience though, and seems like adding the custom hexbear stuff like the emoji picker would be a pain to get working
how do i get this
Hexbear Proposals chapo.chat matrix room.
This will be a place for site proposals and discussion before implementation on the site.
Every proposal will also be mirrored into a pinned post on the hexbear community.
Any other ideas for helping to integrate the two spaces are welcome to be commented here or messaged to me directly.
Within Hexbear Proposals you can see the history of all site proposals and react to them, indicating a vote for or against a proposal.
Sending messages will be restricted to verified and active hexbear accounts older than 1 month with their matrix id in their hexbear user profile.
All top level messages within the channel must be a Proposals (idea for changing the site), Feedback (regarding non-technical aspects of the site, for technical please use https://hexbear.net/c/feedback), or Appeals (regarding admin/moderator actions).
Discussion regarding these will be within nested threads under the post.
To gain matrix verification, all you need to do is navigate to my hexbear userprofile and click the send a secure private message including your hexbear username.