Great points in this conversation about how Micro.blog handles longer blog posts with titles. Maybe the time has come for a change here. I’ve never wanted Micro.blog’s timeline to be a bunch of summaries and “read more” links, but right now we should be encouraging longer posts, not relegating them.
@jabel my vote is for titles. A compelling title is identical to a compelling first sentence or topic sentence. I find the folks who like to do long posts without titles (sorry you’re one but I still follow!) a bit exhausting as part of the scroll. I don’t actually often know if I’m interested enough to read, whereas the title tells me if I am. Also, I find it not at all annoying to click a link to read something, but very annoying to click a read more link and get like 5 more words or one more sentence.