Description
Is your suggestion related to a problem? Please describe.
Replies take way too much space, so there's much less space for new messages if replies are used a lot.
This makes it a lot harder to follow discussions, and severely limits the usefulness of replies since they are so obnoxious.
Describe the solution you'd like.
I'd like something like what Discord recently uses, i.e. the message replied to has its content limited to one line with a smaller font size, and both the avatar and name of the person should be on the same line, meaning that it only takes up a bit of extra vertical space, but still much less than a full message.
In addition, clicking anywhere on the quote should take you back to the original message, so you can see the full message.
Really, just take inspiration from Discord, they have absolutely nailed the design of replies,.