I think the title opening the thread is good. IMO for image posts the best behavior would be that the thumbnail opens the media preview. For site links I would go with the thumbnail opening the link, and replacing the thumbnail with a large arrow if there is no image.
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Would be great if this was a setting! That way, people could choose whatever they prefer. I would enable it myself.
Coming from Apollo my first thought was to click a thumbnail to view an image directly and click the title to view the comments. Now I’ve only viewed the mobile site because it was being hugged to death every time I tried to view it from a computer, but without there being a separate element you can click on to go directly to content I see the title being the next logical thing to act as a way of viewing content directly.
On wykop.pl you click a small link, and he is direct link. Maybe this is a solution?
You could do that. However, since we already have a "Comments" link, it makes more sense to have the title go to the linked URL. However, I would be happy with anything going directly to the linked URL right now. :)
What I don't understand is why @ernest doesn't rush this fix because it would literally cut his server load in half, which I imagine would be of great value to him.