Hey, thanks for the feedback. Here’s some info about these feature requests:

1) The reply icon in the feed isn’t meant to be a button. Instead it’s meant to serve as a reply counter, so users can see how many replies are made on posts.

2) We added the New Notes pill because we believe not all users would want their feeds automatically updated when opening the app. Let’s say they open the app to an interesting note, but they can’t continue reading because the feed updates automatically.

3) I like this idea, our trending feeds along with a ton of other feeds will receive massive upgrades in the future, so stay tuned!