Erich_Grunewald 🔸 answers What is the difference between shortform and post?

[Erich_Grunewald 🔸]

FWIW, there’s some information in the Forum user manual, which is accessible via the “About the Forum” link on the sidebar:

Do you have an idea so strange or uncertain that you’re not sure whether to post about it? Do you have something to share, but not the time to write about it in detail?

Shortform posts are built for these cases — they represent “exploratory, draft-stage, rough, and off-the-cuff thoughts.” They let you shove an idea out into the world with minimal fuss. (If you’re still confused, that link has lots of examples.)

(I agree it’s not obvious how to find this information.)

Edit: Actually, now I just noticed that a similar text is shown in the placeholder of the textbox you see when writing a shortform.

[Cassidy]

Thank you. I’m quite surprised the forum user manual didn’t show up as a result when searching for it. Even now if i search for “what is shortform” directly, I find my own post here, but not the manual.

I vaguely understood what shortform posts are now, and edited my post according to that. Please let me know if I misunderstood it.