The point is that you don't really need to separate between post and article. It is confusing, and an artifact of free content. Since you have a great tool with XEC for which users pay to get post, you don't have to replicate what X is doing, and actually that article feature is a flop for X. With pay as you write model, long content is not an issue any more. You can simply just provide long contents in posts and treat them the same. Much simple concept and UX.
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Perhaps it is best to square root or log the character count for pricing to encourage long content. It does not cost much to store on server.
You mean make it cheaper to post? I think if anything it might be too cheap already. 1000 XEC is not even one cent. The goal is to make it more costly for spam and bots to appear on the feed.
No I do not mean making it cheaper to post. What work is making it relatively cheaper to post long content. For example, posting 10x longer does not cost 10x more, but just 2x more...
But as said above, the point is for the cost to act as both a filter to make it expensive to spam the site, and as a revenue stream to help it grow. 2000 XEC is a little more than a penny today to make a 2000 character feed post. If price of XEC goes up significantly, at that point it is probably worth revisiting.
Long content is what helps drive your site attention, not some short meme messages.
I'm not following. Long content can be published as an article as well. Feed posts can be as long as 2000 characters. You can also thread them if you'd rather post them in the feed rather than as an article. What am I missing? Trying to understand since I want this place to be as great as possible.
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But then authors have no way to charge people for content. Feed is free content. Articles are meant for paid for content. On X, you can't paywall an article like you can here.