Hear, hear! Yeah, I made a comment on a recent @steemitblog post supporting the simple implementation of a smaller posts in the feed to allow for better perusal, but it's clear that that is only a start.

The active tab was a particularly good idea. I wonder why they took it down? Well, I suppose it would take some thinking for it to be abuse-proof. Being able to filter by recent-ness and comments would be an amazing leap forward. Add to that special alerts that you could set up for specific authors, and I think the problem is pretty much totally fixed.