Seems like it could just go on the All Post page and have a filter for it, off by default. But it would seem that what really makes sense is something like a newsfeed, like that seen in Facebook or Twitter, and ways to filter or prioritize what shows up in it. Newsfeed would work especially well if the “short” aspect was enforced or strongly encouraged in some way.
When you say ‘go on All Post page’ what are you imagining? Would you rather see a list of posts (i.e. ‘Gordon’s Shortform Feed’, or a list of comments (perhaps heavily truncated)? The former is the most straightforward thing to implement on AllPosts but also not really “the thing.”
One concern is that the solution needs to not be something tucked-out-of-the-way — it needs to be something that a reasonable number of site visitors will see by default, so that users starting their shortform feed aren’t just shouting into the void.
So assuming this works by creating a new “short form” post type (similar to the way there are regular posts, questions, events, etc.), my thought was you could add a filter on All Posts like the existing ones under the gear icon popout. So:
would get a “Short” option to show the new short form type. It could be turned on by default, sure, and then people could choose to turn it off. Although if All Posts is going to contain lots of short content in the future I’d like it to look more like a newsfeed then and less like a list of articles.
Right now shortform posts are more like comments than posts (i.e. on the offchance you haven’t seen it, see my shortform feed). In particular, they don’t have titles (which seems sort of important to enable them to be more off-the-cuff, without necessarily having a clear encapuslation).
The current plan is to continue using the current system (wherein users get to have a post called “Gordon’s Shortform” or some such), just in a more automated fashion, and possibly slightly tweaking the styles on shortform pages to look somewhere in-between posts and comments. But, one of the open questions is whether they actually warrant full backend support for a new content type.
Seems like it could just go on the All Post page and have a filter for it, off by default. But it would seem that what really makes sense is something like a newsfeed, like that seen in Facebook or Twitter, and ways to filter or prioritize what shows up in it. Newsfeed would work especially well if the “short” aspect was enforced or strongly encouraged in some way.
When you say ‘go on All Post page’ what are you imagining? Would you rather see a list of posts (i.e. ‘Gordon’s Shortform Feed’, or a list of comments (perhaps heavily truncated)? The former is the most straightforward thing to implement on AllPosts but also not really “the thing.”
One concern is that the solution needs to not be something tucked-out-of-the-way — it needs to be something that a reasonable number of site visitors will see by default, so that users starting their shortform feed aren’t just shouting into the void.
So assuming this works by creating a new “short form” post type (similar to the way there are regular posts, questions, events, etc.), my thought was you could add a filter on All Posts like the existing ones under the gear icon popout. So:
would get a “Short” option to show the new short form type. It could be turned on by default, sure, and then people could choose to turn it off. Although if All Posts is going to contain lots of short content in the future I’d like it to look more like a newsfeed then and less like a list of articles.
Right now shortform posts are more like comments than posts (i.e. on the offchance you haven’t seen it, see my shortform feed). In particular, they don’t have titles (which seems sort of important to enable them to be more off-the-cuff, without necessarily having a clear encapuslation).
The current plan is to continue using the current system (wherein users get to have a post called “Gordon’s Shortform” or some such), just in a more automated fashion, and possibly slightly tweaking the styles on shortform pages to look somewhere in-between posts and comments. But, one of the open questions is whether they actually warrant full backend support for a new content type.