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

[lightgetsin]

Yes, the gmail link is broken in basic html mode, which is the only mode I can operate in. And really, you don't want to click through to get to the comment content anyway.

Good point re phones, I hadn't thought of that.

[kyrielle]

Have you reported that link being broken to gmail? Sounds like they have a pretty major bug....

[lightgetsin]

Oh, they know. It's been that way for nearly a year, along with half a dozen other major bugs. They really, really do not care about basic html users, trufax.

[elf]

+1.

I have dialup. I use the old version of gmail, which gets me most features, but when things are loading slow it switches to basic HTML, which is almost entirely worthless. I can mainly use it to see if there are emails I need to check later when I've got more bandwidth.