Oddbean new post about login | logout Anybody else immediately scroll by extremely long notes in their feed? Use Nostr how you want, of course, but long form is there for exactly those types of posts. A better approach is to publish it as long form, and then post a short summary with a link to the full article.
Removal of character limit was death of Twitter.
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I find I do if interested, the best way I have found to try and give them the time is to not truncate the note. Then you are forced to long scroll
I would stop using that client altogether if it didn’t truncate 🤣🤣
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attention span is fucked gm
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naw I just scroll by obvious trash or things I'm not interested in the one long form i did post I linked to the original though question: are 4-5 haiku and a photo long form?
I use longform when I need formatting or if it's something I plan to revisit/edit. Sometimes I start writing a post and keep adding to it ; i send it off when I can't immediately add anything else to it. I also do this in general conversation, my rambling drives people nuts too. Can't help it 🫣
It would be cool if a client could publish both kinds, and then once a note you’re composing reaches a certain length it could prompt you to publish as long form.
Yeah, I don’t love reading long format on mobile. Will do it, but not the preferred method. Also my brain is in conversation/scroll mode, not hunker down and focus on one topic mode.
You can also get people's attention with an "executive summary" in the first one or two sentences
True. This would be a decent approach too.
One of the reasons I’m becoming a nostr maxi, long notes from some nostriches I stop and read because I know they are wrote for a reason, others I skip right by because it is spammy, but either way, I love the option of writing a blog post if I so choose to
Definitely some are worth reading. Many times I find that what is said in the long notes could have been said much more succinctly and it’s just lazy writing.
What is a good way to do long form posts. I tend to post my short and long form posts the same way, so the long form are not properly formatted and are hard to read (I do link to my substack)? I'd rather be able to post a proper long form post on Nostr.
My favorite long form client to use is https://habla.news but another popular one is https://yakihonne.com
I look at it as long form is for when you need advanced formatting or other advantages it offers, kind 1 is fine for when you just have a lot of plain text
What you say makes complete sense but tbh, for me; if a person can write in paragraphs and use grammar correctly, I try to always open their note in a separate tab to read later. I think it depends on the content of the post? 🤔
If the first couple sentences grab my attention then I might be inclined to open and read it. Long form having full support for formatting/markup then makes reading the rest of it more enjoyable. Extremely lengthy kind-1 notes, which by design of the protocol are devoid of any formatting, are not fun to read.
