This was actually closer to how I thought about the issue – I mostly wanted a bunch of features that happened to be useful generally, while also enabling a particular paradigm. Open Threads and Shortform Feed posts are basically the same mechanics with different vibes, where an important part of the shortform vibe (from my perspective) is that a shortform feed* post communicates a greater sense of author ownership (both of the overall Shortform Feed post, and off individual comments within it)
[and yes, under-the-hood, the new shortform features are identical to what they’ve been for the past year – the difference is mostly that shortform comments and posts get a boolean “shortform” flag that can be referenced by search operations]
Jimrandomh’s perspective was more oriented around making shortform a fully fledged featureset, and he can probably do a better job than I articulating why that made more sense to him.
This was actually closer to how I thought about the issue – I mostly wanted a bunch of features that happened to be useful generally, while also enabling a particular paradigm. Open Threads and Shortform Feed posts are basically the same mechanics with different vibes, where an important part of the shortform vibe (from my perspective) is that a shortform feed* post communicates a greater sense of author ownership (both of the overall Shortform Feed post, and off individual comments within it)
[and yes, under-the-hood, the new shortform features are identical to what they’ve been for the past year – the difference is mostly that shortform comments and posts get a boolean “shortform” flag that can be referenced by search operations]
Jimrandomh’s perspective was more oriented around making shortform a fully fledged featureset, and he can probably do a better job than I articulating why that made more sense to him.