Fine by me.
The best IMO would be that the title link always opens the post. Seems more logical to me, rather that they either open the post or an external link.
Yeah, that’s a good idea. Inconsistent interfacing is never good.
It’s not about inconsistency. It’s how throat was designed. The title is a hyperlink, so it’s totally normal for it to open the link instead of the post. The thumbnail is a preview of the first image in the linked website caught by the generator, it’s hosted on poal, so it’s normal that it opens the post itself (identical to comment icon).
I’m not denying your underlying logic, but from an actual user perspective:
clicking an image
landing on text
Is bad design.
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