Title:
truncated crossposts
Area:
crossposting
Summary:
Add option to truncate posts when crossposted, so that entire post is not reproduced elsewhere.
Description:
Like many folks, I crosspost so non-DW people can see the entry on their flist, but I don't care for having the entirety of every post kept in multiple places. I'd much rather provide some kind of summary/entry section as teaser, and require that reading the rest means coming back to DW (which is also the only place I have comments turned on, as well).
Perhaps default be the first X number of characters, or stop at the cut (with cut being link to the DW post?). Which gets used would be dependent on which is programmatically easier. ETA: to clarify, this would be optional per post. You could crosspost as normal, with the entire thing going elsewhere, and then on the next post you could opt to truncate. [See comments from some other suggestions on how truncating might work.]
I'd be happy either way, so long as the objective of "only a little posted elsewhere, and must come to main (DW) journal to read the rest" is achieved.
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This suggestion:
View AnswersShould be implemented as-is.
36 (48.0%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
16 (21.3%)
Shouldn't be implemented.
11 (14.7%)
(I have no opinion)
12 (16.0%)
(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)