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For me, compact view simply doesn't work at all. There is no change when I select compact view.

I've tried killing the app and relaunching it, doesn't make a difference.

I agree the compact view could be a bit more compact, however I do rather enjoy that card view.

Compared to Alien Blue, the new app's compact view is almost 1.5x as large.

... Is this intentional, to put less posts per page so you can reduce the query load on the servers?

Probably the #1 thing I dislike about the new client.

Compact view is not compact enough on iOS