This is what killed Digg, and is killing Reddit, under Reddit's new design. I have posted quite a bit about how old.reddit is so much more important because with the +RES you can tweak the overall information density, as well as visual guides to where you are in the thread (the border highlighters to nesting comments: https://i.imgur.com/oWiweis.png
And when coupled with hover zoom (or whatever extension you like) allows you to not even click on an image: https://i.imgur.com/nkvPUb4.jpg)
And then, either turn off thumbnails in titles and you get a great density that allows one to consume more info -- this is why Digg died, and Reddit is "Diggifying" them selves with their lame new layout -- which Ironically is how reddit had a huge spike in users after digg 2.0 --> Also whatever happened to Kevin whatever from Digg who was on a bunch of magazine for being some web visionary, and now he has dissipated...