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.
That's because you are used to the opposite, which is from an intelligent design standpoint incorrect.
No, It’s because an end user does and should expect that clicking on a thumbnail takes them to a larger version of image.
Any justification regarding technical backend, or intelligent design, doesn’t matter.
For example:
A typical image search takes you to a page displaying a grid of thumbnails with links under them.
When you click on the image, a larger image is presented.
When you click on the link, it takes you to the page where the image appears.
Imagine the opposite, if clicking the image took you to the link, and clicking the link took you to the image.
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