In some other thread @Maikel wrote:

maybe we should extend the 2 minute week channel to not only allow video's but also very short articles (max 1024 characters?) with some images. I have enough to share about my progress in incremental steps but I dont have the time to make a video that often.

Followed a discussion about the scope of #C0120A3L30R , I copy in this thread some message of the discussion.

This is what #CCL5VVBAN is for! I'm curious why people don't use it more. I would be very happy to see people post even daily updates to it.

I'm happy to do that. I will start. 😉

My understanding (after rereading the Member Handbook) was that #CCL5VVBAN was for showing something specific about your work in any format, and #C0120A3L30R for updates on your progress in video format. I thought #CCL5VVBAN was not a good place for "simple" progress information, and that it is more for something specific you wanted to show to the community. But maybe I have missed something. So where to place some simple weekly update of your progress in a non video format? If I understand well, Mariano thinks it is OK to put it in #C0120A3L30R and Kartrik see #CCL5VVBAN as a good place for it. The two seems OK for me (with a small preference for #C0120A3L30R) but I guess we should clarify this and update the Member Handbook to make it clear!

I also just reread the member-handbook, the #CCL5VVBAN sounds like it can also be used for these "short text format updates". My other thought is that it is also a pitty if the two-minute-video format disappears in favour of more text updates. I thought the two-minute video format was quite unique to this community, which I like a lot. I just wish I had more time to make videos.

if you are writing a weekly summary in text and can be skimmed in two minutes I think it's ok to put it on #C0120A3L30R, if it's a "hey, I did this, what do you think" I think it should go on #CCL5VVBAN, given the amount of messages on that channel I don't think people will get annoyed if you share 3 or 4 a week there

I'd be happy with either of the following: 1. #C0120A3L30R is short weekly update videos only. Everything else goes in #CCL5VVBAN. 2. #C0120A3L30R is short weekly updates. Video, text, audio — you choose the medium. Longer updates, or discussion of past work, goes in #CCL5VVBAN. Both of these keep the name

#two-minute-week

relevant. Other changes to the format (allowing longer updates, or posts about older work, or more frequent updates) would strain the name, which seems needless — we have #CCL5VVBAN as a fallback, so there's no harm in keeping #C0120A3L30R narrowly defined. My preference is probably just to keep things as they are, since that's less of a make-work project. But I don't have strong feelings either way.