I’m sad to hear that a short-form section is currently planned to be for ephemeral content. I was a person who expressed interest in the short-form idea, and I very much intended it to still be for archive-quality discussion; I was thinking of things like question posts, prompts, and the like. Still worth indexing, but not intended to make points, instead intended to explore them.
This makes sense, and plausibly the site should have something like that instead. In whichever world, I care a lot about there being some mechanism by which short-form ideas and writing bubble up into the indexed/archived ideas on the site; the reason that I might want to make short-form content feel more ephemeral is that it seems to me that people are very willing to write their off-the-cuff ideas into such a format, if they can generally expect not to be made to defend those ideas forever.
I’m sad to hear that a short-form section is currently planned to be for ephemeral content. I was a person who expressed interest in the short-form idea, and I very much intended it to still be for archive-quality discussion; I was thinking of things like question posts, prompts, and the like. Still worth indexing, but not intended to make points, instead intended to explore them.
This makes sense, and plausibly the site should have something like that instead. In whichever world, I care a lot about there being some mechanism by which short-form ideas and writing bubble up into the indexed/archived ideas on the site; the reason that I might want to make short-form content feel more ephemeral is that it seems to me that people are very willing to write their off-the-cuff ideas into such a format, if they can generally expect not to be made to defend those ideas forever.