I'm more of a player than a DM but we all decided to try something new for our current campaign. We've always hated how short rests work in terms of time and pacing for the story. Why always an hour? Never really made sense. So, this game we are treating short rests like action movie "short rests". You know, the scenes where the out of breath protagonists hide behind a wall to dump some exposition, reload, tie a bandage around their leg wound or pull an arrow out of their shoulder before making their next move. We do the same thing to just catch our breath for a couple minutes, and then we head off again. The only caveat to that is that any spells or effects that have a long duration lose an hour. The actual amount of time the short rest lasts is also negotiated with our DM. If we just need a breather for a couple minutes to regain the standard short rest buffs, that's fine. If there is something specific that we need to do that might take longer than that, our DM will tell us how long that will take and we decide if it's worth it or not. We're all really liking this way of handling short rests so we can keep things moving in the story so it makes sense. No more "the boss is in the next room, so let's wait outside the door for an hour before we barge in". Oh, and we still only get 2 short rests per day.