This is exactly the reason. In my SSB days, we had an extremely high character limit on posts. People became enormously long-winded; someone called it “full contact blog hockey” and that was about right
The message chunking is a feature. It keeps people focused on editing their paragraphs into a form that works for feeds, and it enables replies to and reposts of inner chunks (which is close to a model for transclusion).
For longer writing we have two good options
1, make threads work better (composing and rendering)
2, support longform embeds, which people already do via screenshots of text
The message chunking is a feature. It keeps people focused on editing their paragraphs into a form that works for feeds, and it enables replies to and reposts of inner chunks (which is close to a model for transclusion).
For longer writing we have two good options
1, make threads work better (composing and rendering) 2, support longform embeds, which people already do via screenshots of text
We’ll probably do 1 but I’m interested to try 2