Chat with My Wife — Changing the Series Title
Still abbreviates to CwMW, at least
ME: Debster, which do you like better: “Chat with My Wife” or “Convo with My Wife”?
DEB: (no hesitation) “Chat with My Wife.” Definitely. (looks at me) So, now the title is changing, too?
When I started Conversations with My Wife back in December 2016 on Medium, each title was just “Conversation with My Wife” and a parenthetical number. The topic of the conversation was covered in the subtitle. For five years that worked fine. Then, in the latest Medium redesign, titles and subtitles get occasionally dropped or buried, and photo thumbnails may or may not get included depending on platform, screen size, or, I dunno, sunspot activity.
So I’m going to try dropping the conversation number¹ (“What is that, the area code or something?” somebody asked me; no no no, it’s a numeric sequence, which is obvious… assuming you’ve been reading my stuff for awhile now, but otherwise, drat, okay, good question, sorry) and putting the subtitle in the title. We’ll see how that goes. And to reduce the odds of the title getting truncated, our “Conversations” will now be “Chats.”
ME: They also stopped showing story tags. Not just on the phone and iPad apps, but on the browser version also! There’s almost no point in filling in tags because nobody can see them!
DEB: Don’t you just mess around with those anyway?
ME: Some people like that! Roz Warren actually read through all our Conversations—um, Chats, whatever—just to chuckle at our tags. James Knight makes comments on them!
DEB: Maybe somebody didn’t like it that you never took the tags seriously?
¹Thank you to Roz Liddle for saying she liked the numbers.
Copyright ©2022 by Jack Herlocker. Maybe I’ll stop leaving copyright threats at the end. On the other hand, what’s wrong with indulging my passive-aggressive tendencies?
Should I go back and change the collection title? Seems like work.
