Reformat email comment notifications to show comments on large entries

[lightgetsin]

Title:
Reformat email comment notifications to show comments on large entries

Area:
notifications

Summary:
When a post is very large and there is an email notification of a comment to it, Gmail will truncate the message after X characters. Probably other webmails do the same. This means that when you open the notification, you can't see the comment, or have access to the links to interact with it, like reply.

Description:
There are a few potential ways to fix this. If a post is larger than a set character count, the notification email could be reformatted so the comment is at the top, followed by the post, which will get truncated. Alternatively, the notification could truncate the entry already so that the comment still follows it like usual, but is sure to show up.

Poll #2057 Reformat email comment notifications to show comments on large entries

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 42

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Should be implemented as-is.
15 (35.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
8 (19.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
12 (28.6%)

(I have no opinion)
5 (11.9%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (4.8%)

Comments

[jaaaarne]

I haven't had my emails truncated by email provider [yet], but I'm all for the second suggestion (truncate the entry) on all entries. It's quite uncomfortable when the entry is long and you have to scroll to get to the comment itself. And when there are lots of top-level comments on a entry you get loads of copies of your entry.

If there is a possibility, you could make it a setting that lets users choose whether they want things like they are now or want have shorter notifications.

[nacbrie]

I agree with this. If somebody has commented on even a moderately long entry (even a few thousand words), scrolling down just to see "WORD!" is pretty annoying. Ideally, I would like a few lines/maybe one paragraph of my entry so as I can get the context, and then the comment.

[triadruid]

Right. I'd rather get a truncated entry and the (start of the) comment within about a screen-length than get the whole entry every time. Very annoying when you do a long post and everyone replies at the top.