diff --git a/src/components/status_body/status_body.js b/src/components/status_body/status_body.js
index f4167ac1..91c33135 100644
--- a/src/components/status_body/status_body.js
+++ b/src/components/status_body/status_body.js
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ const StatusContent = {
     // Using max-height + overflow: auto for status components resulted in false positives
     // very often with japanese characters, and it was very annoying.
     tallStatus () {
+      if (this.singleLine || this.compact) return false
       const lengthScore = this.status.raw_html.split(/<p|<br/).length + this.postLength / 80
       return lengthScore > 20
     },