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Hey! I'm sorry you find the title intimidating. You could just use a random character in your title, or even a whitespace, to achieve the effect of a title-free place to post.

Regarding the individual URL, if you don't want to click to copy it using the current flow, you could just CMD+Shift+C to copy the URL?



> You could just use a random character in your title

As a mild-OCD perfectionist I'm literally grinding my teeth imagining doing it this way. If there is a place for a title a post I write has to have a good title or no title at all.

> or even a whitespace to achieve the effect of a title-free place to post.

If title doesn't have to be unique this already seems as an acceptable compromise.

> Regarding the individual URL, if you don't want to click to copy it using the current flow, you could just CMD+Shift+C to copy the URL?

Nice point. Any chance I could copy a post URL or open it in a background page straight from the posts list? I scroll the feed, see some read/bookmark/share-worthy posts and I would normally middle click them to get them all opened in background tabs.


> As a mild-OCD perfectionist I'm literally grinding my teeth imagining doing it this way.

Haha sorry I understand what you mean!

>If title doesn't have to be unique this already seems as an acceptable compromise.

Yes, currently the title doesn't have to be unique. The platform will just generate a unique URL for each post based on the title, and append a digit if necessary.

> Nice point. Any chance I could copy a post URL or open it in a background page straight from the posts list?

It was initially set up like this, but a bunch of users (mainly on mobile) complained that they didn't like the fact that each post opened in a separate tab. They wanted to just read a post and scroll to the next one easily. That's why I've moved to the current format. Maybe I could make it behave differently on desktop. I'll keep this in mind.

Thanks!




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