Hi Product Hunt, I'm Scott and I like words on the internet
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I'm relatively new to Product Hunt but loving the community. I work at Medium, where I oversee our content team, but I'm always on the lookout for new writing, reading, and productivity tools and apps.
Excited to be here!
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Welcome Scott! A words question from the app side, since you lead a content team: how do you handle length when a piece has to fit somewhere? My app's interface is translated into dozens of languages, and one rule I had to state more than once was "never shorten a translation to fit a button, rephrase it instead", because a clipped line reads like it was machine translated. The onboarding has a stricter one: every title and subtitle is exactly two lines in every language, so the button does not move under the reader's thumb between steps. Curious whether Medium editors have a house rule for headlines that get cut off in previews.
Welcome Scott! I write on a few platforms myself, in both Japanese and English, so writing and reading tools are always on my radar too. Nice to have someone from Medium around here.