It looks visually complicated to me, especially when there is a lot of zap activity and when you click on the note. You have zaps, comments, quotes, reactions, and zaps below those that all look the same. I feel like my eyes are fighting between the notes and the stuff below them. There's beauty in simplicity.
To me, this is microblog heaven #nostrdesign
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You're probably right on the comments and zaps looking the same in the OP. Still trying to find something better/consistent for that.
All the other stuff I've been testing for weeks. Next.nostrudel is batshit crazy complicated relative to this and even that took my eyes just one day to learn how to filter for signal.
Maybe try to de-emphasize the stuff that’s not zaps?