Thoughts on Post Length

[andr0meda]

I will say that one thing I am excited about here is the fact that long-form posting feels more... encouraged here, in a sense? I loved reading long posts and comments on Cohost, but I still felt like I had to trim the fat off of all my thoughts and make sure that everything I posted was easy for everybody to digest at a glance. Old habits enforced by larger social media websites die hard, I suppose.

This does excite me because I have a lot of TieJen thoughts that could easily evolve into essays, though. Especially as my rewatch of 00 continues. I'm already thinking about how Jenni's core issues in Season 1 are self-isolation and toxic self-reliance, and how it affects her dynamic with Tieria. I'm gonna be honest: there were points in which they were making each other worse.

Comments

[andr0meda]

I feel you on the neuroses. Even outside of Tumblr, this continuous aggressive push for shorter posts, short videos, and shorter... well...everything makes longposting feel like you're violating some sort of social rule at times. All your posts need to be bite-sized and easy to comprehend at a glance, and if they aren't, you're taking up too much space. You're demanding too much of other people. Therefore, you are Cringe.

I didn't even know that mid-post read mores were a thing, that could be useful!

[malymin]

All your posts need to be bite-sized and easy to comprehend at a glance, and if they aren't, you're taking up too much space. You're demanding too much of other people. Therefore, you are Cringe.

Oh my god, that really is it, isn't it. Just... in a nutshell.

I didn't even know that mid-post read mores were a thing, that could be useful!

Yep! Personally, I find the controls for applying them... finicky in the rich text editor. But in the html editor, you wrap the area you want to cut in <cut> html tags. Pretty sure it's an Livejournal & Dreamwidth custom/site-unique HTML feature, like how footnotes on Cohost were a custom/site-unique Markdown feature.

So you can do something like:
----------------------------------------------
Hi! This is an introductory paragraph to my post. You know, like what other site's readmore systems can let you have.

<cut="this is the text the readmore will display before clicking"> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. <cut>

Goodbye! This is a conclusion paragraph to my post. This is great if there's information you want to be immediately visible that fits better reading-flow-wise at the end of a post than at the top of it.

[lb_lee]

Yup! We, for instance, use multiple cuts as makeshift bookmarks (in the HTML sense) in a post--for instance, if an essay is in multiple sections, we can make a read more for each section so readers can get to exactly what they want!

And you can also put the readmores (we call them cuts here) anywhere you want. Some people for instance, may only cut a sentence and put it behind a "CW: sad thing" cut! It's very flexible.