Helpful tips, Melissa.
Unless I'm actually writing shortform, I always try to pad out my shorter posts to avoid this issue.
I did read something a while back from Medium where they said they would display short posts with the transparent image and overlaid title similar to a shortform post. It's hard to keep up with it all.
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