Mobile reading experience on long topics Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did.
Process question, and I have read the guidelines before asking.
I understand the rule. What I do not understand is the failure it was written to prevent, and I suspect the failure is more interesting than the rule.
Not a complaint and not an appeal. If the answer is "because of something you have not seen yet", I would like to hear about it.
The opening post answers the question as asked. The question underneath it is different.
Feature request framed as feedback: the category list is long enough that a first-time reader cannot tell which four categories carry most of the traffic. A count next to each would fix that without changing anything structural.
Logged, and thank you for the precise description. That is a wording problem rather than a logic problem — an empty state that says "no topics match both filters" is a five-minute change and a real improvement.
For what it is worth, the same held on the two occasions I checked.
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