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Just to quickly scribble down an idea. One of the affordances of Tiddlywiki that I like in particular is how easily you can bring up Tiddlers (the most basic unit of content - if not to say the golden hammer - in this wiki software) together on a single page and rearrange them within the session as needed.

I think this would be something I'd like to emulate somehow on this website. Mainly as tool for my most faithful reader (me), as I imagine that this would be useful to combine notes and into a new article. And - devoid of any content - also to explore it the design concept. What if an internal link would conjure up the linked article in given context from where it is linked?

There are quite a few options for implementing it. Andy Matuschak has explored this space already quite ingeniouslyis with his working notes, which combine hover card previews with a side by side view that keeps the trail you've followed intact, but collapses the earlier parts of that path.

Anyway, it would be quite a little programming project, and I think one where client-side JS would be the right "weapon of choice". I am thinking of a custom built-in element which on hover pulls in the main content of the linked page and exposes several options on how to display it without losing the current context: pulling it in as a whole, or maybe just the part that was actually referenced (for example only the 4th and 5th paragraph of a long article), maybe expanding the paragraphs inline.