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viermalbe 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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.

lapcat 3 months ago [–]

> 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.

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