Shortform Is Fun
Today, I’ve been testing with shortform posts on Medium.

Tomas Smith’s article was the reason to see what I could do with Shortform Posts on Medium. Medium itself changed some things that let their monetized alternative to Twitter fall behind the latter. The viewers can only read the (metered) post if they click and open the article. The news feed style is then gone.

My tests show shortform posts can have a title and subtitle too. The amount of words in the post is the only measure whether a metered article appears with a picture plus title or an article excerpt plus the read-more-link.

Shortform posts are not eligible for further distribution by Medium.

In my next post, I will try to find out where it makes sense to use shortform posts.

As for now, changing from bold first sentence to title with subtitle and adding pictures show bizarre behaviors of the Medium back end. Some post shrink to just the picture with a caption on it. Others display their content in full.

I’ll keep you posted.
['Michael Knackfuss']
['UX Design', 'Visual Design', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Culture']