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/rant Interesting story, however the format is horrible. It's my first time coming across posts like this and it was a struggle to read till the end (much like
by StanAngeloff 8y ago
/rant Interesting story, however the format is horrible. It's my first time coming across posts like this and it was a struggle to read till the end (much like Twitter threads are a mess). The whole story will make for a great blog post.
- scarface74 8y ago(I saw the technical limitation below) It could be worse. It could have been a slide show.
- dkonofalski 8y agoI agree. I had to re-read the first few posts multiple times because I thought I missed something. It wasn't really clear to me that "the call" in question was a job offer so I just thought Steve heard about this phone call and then needed to chat. On top of that, it's weird to get these little breaks because the story flows pretty naturally but feels disjointed.
- nemetroid 8y agoAgreed that this seems like a longer story cut up to fit the format, rather than the other way around. From the "about" page, the author of this post series is one of the co-founders of the site it is posted on.
- rgrove 8y agoHi! I work on Cake. This is fair criticism. Cake currently only allows one photo per post, so splitting the story across multiple posts is one way people can tell a story with multiple photos. We have more advanced multi-image support on our roadmap, we just haven't gotten to it yet.
- StanAngeloff 8y agoI'll be keeping an eye, thanks for dropping in. There are more "conversations" on the homepage and for most the format and extra engagement from the community works great.
- shim2k 8y agoI actually found this format refreshing so keep doing a good job!
- rgrove 8y agoThanks! I appreciate the positivity. :)
- peterwwillis 8y agoThe picture-as-a-story reminds me of the old Brightkite social network. Can you please tell your bosses to rip them off and re-invent it so I can use it again? It's the only social network I have ever loved, and it's been dead for 7 years. It was such a fun community.
- aasasd 8y agoOn mobile, the whole story is displayed on one page, so presumably you could just do the same thing on the desktop.
- rgrove 8y agoThe whole story is displayed on a single unbroken page on all platforms, unless you have JS disabled, in which case you'll only see 25 posts per page.
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- dom96 8y agoIndeed. The format is so horrible in fact that I left the web page confused, not realising that there is more to read until I read this comment.
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- llao 8y agoI gave up utterly confused and annoyed at "page 5".
- agumonkey 8y agoI think it's not the format but the telling. Or maybe the format made the story jumpy and fuzzy.
- jccalhoun 8y agoI thought it was some sort of reformatted twitter thread at first. It was really distracting.