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Comment by bovermyer

12 hours ago

The Briefings have been most useful for me. It feels more curated and less firehose-y.

https://bubbles.town/briefing

Also, showing the excerpts from the post text is vastly superior to just showing the post titles.

  • I currently work on a feature to show excerpts (and read time) in the list views as well. But I will wait with the deployment until the Hacker News visitor wave has calmed down.

    • > and read time

      If anything, I would recommend a word count instead.

      Word count is objective. Read time is subjective, variable, just an estimate, and probably based on word count anyway.