@manton It’s tricky, because is it “long posts” or even “full posts”, really? Seems to me what we really mean is “title-less posts”, but even that is… squishy.

Back when Tumblr first came out, one of its distinguishing features to me was that titles were optional, regardless of post length. To me, it made it feel a bit more like a diary, mixed with content sharing/remixing.

Of my subscribers, 4% subscribe to just the full posts feed, 0% to the microblog feed, and the rest to the feed with all posts.

From what I recall, the discussion of multiple feeds stems from the desire users have to not have to read the same thing in two places, once in an RSS reader and once again in their Micro.blog feed. The same complaint was made when Twitter came around, and most people decided to give up RSS and stick with just their Twitter feed. In my opinion, this was a factor in publications giving up their agency to Twitter.

What if instead of solving this problem via the publication side, you solve it from the consumption side? Instead of limiting where I’ll read content to one of two places, you could find a way to let me read all of the content I want to read in one place?

What if Micro.blog was where I could read everything? But instead of forcing publications to publish here, you allow users to add feeds from the publications they want to read to appear in their Micro.blog feed.

Make it kind of a Micro.internet feed.

That way, you get the best of all worlds. You have super simple publishing and reading on an open platform.

If you don’t do it, I might build a Micro.blog + RSS reader myself 😉