Allow comment emails to truncate the body and show the message for long posts

[florahart]

Title:
Allow comment emails to truncate the body and show the message for long posts

Area:
notifications

Summary:
DW allows a much longer post than other similar sites. Gmail (and maybe other services) thinks comments to such posts makes messages that are too long, so it decides what to truncate. I want to be who decides that.

Description:
When a post is longer than some limit, emailed comments fail to work tidily. In Gmail specifically--and maybe in other services--the comment and the links to the entry get cut off in favor of showing the first X amount of the body of the entry to which the comment is made, and instead there's a link to see the full message text. I have to then open that link in order to A. see the comment, and B. see the other links that come with notifications, such as view all comments to this, answer this, view this thread. So basically the notification doesn't tell me anything except there IS a comment, and then if I want to see what that comment IS, I have to open the message, click a link, wait for a separate tab to load, and THEN if I want to go to the entry to reply, click ANOTHER link and wait for a tab to load, which is just annoying.

This doesn't come up enormously often for me, but it does irritate me about to death when it does. I want to be able to control this behavior myself, and I don't think I can do it from the Gmail end (and also, I don't want to change my Gmail settings for all other messages anyway).

I'm envisioning something in the notifications tab that is an enable/disable ticky, maybe? Where the behavior I can enable is something like, if the total post-plus-comment length of an email notification is greater than X*, truncate the body of the post in the notification in order to ensure the comment appears in the email.

*X being maybe something like the max size of an LJ post, although as long as we are truncating content, it could possibly be quite a bit less than that. I imagine in most cases the first thousand words would be totally sufficient for me to understand what was being commented at. Where Gmail cuts off is maybe somewhere around half again the LJ-post max--I get back about 14,000 words before it cuts off.

So what I'm envisioning is, the notification would be an email that instead of going

20,000 words of body
link to entire body plus comment and other links

would go

The first X words of the post content
a note that says the body text has been truncated
the comment and links

Poll #3463 Allow comment emails to truncate the body and show the message for long posts

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 51

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Should be implemented as-is.
30 (58.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
4 (7.8%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
3 (5.9%)

(I have no opinion)
11 (21.6%)

(Other: please comment)
3 (5.9%)

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[rosefox]

Title:
Subscribe to polls

Area:
Polling

Summary:
Allow people to subscribe to polls and receive notification of poll votes.

Description:
I'd like to be able to subscribe to poll votes the way I subscribe to entry comments. Currently, poll notification has very little data:

Hi rosefox,

[username] has replied to poll #xxxxxx ("This is a poll").

You can:

* View the poll's status
* Discuss the poll

In addition, you can only subscribe to your own polls. I would like to be able to subscribe to other people's polls and see much more information: which questions were answered and how, plus a snapshot of the poll as it currently stands. There could also be a separate option to subscribe to receiving a snapshot of the poll every 24 hours, for those who want updates but don't want to see every single vote in high-traffic polls.

The trickiest part would be making sure that subscribers only see information they would see if they looked at the poll page. For example, if the poll is set to "Detailed results only visible to poll owner", a subscriber should get a notification that says:

In [link]poll #xxxxxx[/link] ("This is a poll"), owned by rosefox, a vote was cast:

Have you ever committed a felony?
[X] Yes
[X] But I didn't mean it

whereas in a public poll, a subscriber should get a notification that says:

In [link]poll #xxxxxx[/link] ("This is a poll"), owned by rosefox, [username] voted:

Do you think Dreamwidth is awesome?
(X) Yes!

Likewise, people shouldn't be able to subscribe to answers on polls they aren't allowed to see. If someone is in the group of people who are allowed to see a poll and is then removed from that group, they should no longer receive notifications.

I suggest this mostly because I want to see the votes come in on my suggestion posts!

EDIT: Updated for clarity and more detail.

EDIT EDIT: inarticulate points out that being able to subscribe to specific votes on a poll would make it much easier to group together the answers from a single person even if you don't know who that person is. So maybe on "results only visible to owner" polls, there should only be the option for an update every 24 hours, and people who want more granularity than that will be stuck refreshing the page until the numbers change.

EDIT EDIT EDIT: Or if the security is set to anything OTHER than 100% public (all can vote/all can see), add an "enable subscriptions for this poll" checkbox to the poll settings so the poll owner can opt in to subscribability.

Poll #3464 Subscribe to polls

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 41

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Should be implemented as-is.
18 (43.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
7 (17.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
3 (7.3%)

(I have no opinion)
12 (29.3%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.4%)