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Re:Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends,... by pjerem on Saturday April 16, 2022 @05:13PM (#31056142)
Why not just allow your users to write their weekly post during all the week (and saving it while not publishing it) but just allowing to publish once a week ?

In doing so, there would be no real scarcity for the writer (the post can be edited to the infinity) and you encourage writing long prose.

Your UX should show that editing the post is the default option and publishing it should be some ritual (maybe send a notification when it is possible?)

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Re:Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends,... by ivan_gammel on Sunday April 17, 2022 @03:27AM (#31059168)
I just tested, it works exactly this way. You start editing and do it over time until you publish it. It is not obvious from UX though.
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Re:Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends,... by ashishwt on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:50AM (#31120471)
Why not publish all the drafts, in whatever state they are. Just that for the whole week, you'll be able to work on that week's 1 post.
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