In the Android app, I can’t access the “three dots” menu (the one that lets you mark stories as unread, for example) if I’m reading a story - unless I scroll all the way back up to the top.
At some point, scrolling up a little bit would bring that menu into view, but now I have to scroll all the way to the top.
What are you wanting to use in the menu while in the story? It sounds like you want to turn off Full Screen mode, which you can do in preferences. That way you’ll have the menu while reading.
About the full screen preference, you’re right, we must have removed it when we went full screen. Anyway, not sure if that would be something you’d want to enable but I wrote up a ticket for it: