Hey guys,

We’re experimenting a bit with the lengths of the descriptions shown for each story. After having them at 325 characters for the past 6 months, today we’ve shortened them to 225. We think less is more.

The goal is to force ourselves to come up with catchier, more entertaining titles since we won’t be able to fit half the story into the description any longer. Also, it makes all the pages that show multiple stories much more readable, since there isn’t nearly as much text to scroll through. During internal testing we found it made it much easier to find stories that we were interested in.

We’ll test it out and get your feedback. Let us know what you think.

Thanks!