Yeah we definitely don't focus on trending or hot pages as we haven't found it brings up good quality content.

We've been supporting Steepshot so we mainly post of steepshot so that is one photo and we accompany our post with a well crafted short story.
Steepshot as just launched multi-photo post so we may give it a go when it's relevant :-)

As you said not many people have a lot of time and so I'm no big fan of long long post either unless I guess it's more of a guide.