Hey M. Dilger (npub1acg…p35c), I think i remember seeing that you use or have used Amethyst sometimes. I'm noticing that I like one thing that Amethyst does that gossip doesn't do (yet?). When looking at a reply, I like how Amethyst puts a "preview" of whatever note the reply is to within (above) the rendered reply in the timeline.
For me this seems like better UX than just having the link to the replied-to note which takes you to the full thread timeline. I like that link too because I often want to click into the full thread view. But there are a lot of times that having only the context of the direct parent of a reply is plenty and it would be a lot more efficient to not need to click over to the full thread in those cases.