> Old-school text discussions seem to work for HN, why can't it work for Facebook? People don't really read in the same way as you might have previously expect

> Old-school text discussions seem to work for HN, why can't it work for Facebook? People don't really read in the same way as you might have previously expected. ("Reading a short blurb or a tweet" is not the same thing.) Can't or don't want to, I don't know, but they don't. You see the edges of it here, too--tl;drs on HN posts, sometimes, that are less than a screenful of text. And people think you're "spending a lot of effort" when you bang out a post about as long as yours is--and, sometimes, try to frame it as a bad thing. I tend to think Thomas Pettitt has a point[1]. [1] - https://archives.cjr.org/the_audit/the_future_is_medieval.php https://archives.cjr.org/the_audit/the_future_is_medieval.ph...