Having it be about providing bookmarks makes me feel a little better, I guess? Although ‘keep the tab open until later even on a phone’ seems perfectly reasonable. And you can use the scroll bar’s size to quickly estimate length and get an alert that it might be long (comments can mess with this a little, but it’s quick to check for rough length when you get worried).
I agree that expecting a 10k word thing to be harder to get through than a 2k thing, and therefore read less, isn’t sad, but that we’re clearly doing too little long-form due to the incentives on the modern internet (and the karma system here makes this worse).
Although ‘keep the tab open until later even on a phone’ seems perfectly reasonable
Dunno. I regularly just close my browser completely.
I’m super pro long-form stuff, but longform stuff still should be optimized for being longform. A 10k blogpost without sections suffers from even being able to find/trust where you left off, even if you’re just looking for comments)
Having it be about providing bookmarks makes me feel a little better, I guess? Although ‘keep the tab open until later even on a phone’ seems perfectly reasonable. And you can use the scroll bar’s size to quickly estimate length and get an alert that it might be long (comments can mess with this a little, but it’s quick to check for rough length when you get worried).
I agree that expecting a 10k word thing to be harder to get through than a 2k thing, and therefore read less, isn’t sad, but that we’re clearly doing too little long-form due to the incentives on the modern internet (and the karma system here makes this worse).
Dunno. I regularly just close my browser completely.
I’m super pro long-form stuff, but longform stuff still should be optimized for being longform. A 10k blogpost without sections suffers from even being able to find/trust where you left off, even if you’re just looking for comments)