the original title is: Nonfiction Publishing, Under Threat, Is More Important Than Ever

which totally fits, did HN's title algorithm cut that off? If so it seems silly. "Than ever" is an important modifier, otherwise someone is apt to think that the subject is more important than some other opposing subject, in this case that Nonfiction publishing is more important than fiction publishing. Anyway I think the "than ever" should be added back in

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Gander5739 11 hours ago | parent [-]

It's not a title algorithm, it's a character limit.

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harshreality 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Full title, "...than ever": 64 characters

Another title currently on the front page has 74 characters: "The Many Roots of Our Suffering: Reflections on Robert Trivers (1943–2026)"

	▲	Gander5739 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I stand corrected.

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jhbadger 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There isn't a technical reason why titles have to be that short, memory isn't in that short supply despite the RAM shortages. A function, therefore an algorithm, is deciding to truncate the title for some reason.

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perching_aix 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Which you find to be the reasonable explanation over just OP editorializing the title with their own hands because...?

	▲	jfengel 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Because the edited title is incoherent and grammatically incorrect. Until recently that would have marked it as likely done by simplistic automation. These days, it's hard to tell, because humans seem more likely to make simple errors of grammar.

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bryanrasmussen 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

no, as I indicated the full title is within the character limit, to test it I opened up a submit form and it did not say the title was too long.