Honestly i like the new UI a lot better.

I can probably work around 500 characters, I do on mstdn.social, it's not great but you can do it. I type too much anyway.

But performance imho is much better and I like the retractable menu and especially how a whole thread loads right away. Very fast and snappy.

I want to see performance on long threads with many users

@fluffy imagine using an instance with any less than 16 million characters allowed per post