Reduced engagement due to Article type

NodeBB federates out Note or Article depending on the length of the content. While this by-and-large works, the article logic does not encourage as much discussion as expected because a summary is generated so as to provide something for microblog-style software to show (otherwise, it would only show the title (name) and a URL to the forum.)

That summary is limited to a maximum or 500 characters, ending at the last full detected sentence.

When composing a long topic, 500 characters may not be enough to fully introduce the topic and engage users. This lowers click-through rates.

I expressed my frustration about this online to @thisismissem and suggested that I might just revert back to sending the entire post content in summary. This would violate FEP b2b8's recommendation that summary be a maximum of 500 characters:

It should be a maximum of about 500 characters; a few sentences; or a short paragraph.

After consultation with Matt Baer of Writefreely (@[email protected]), he suggested the following changes:[...]

https://activitypub.space/post/1350