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]

It's not only a matter of messages displayed inconveniently. I personally have been dreaming of having an option to not receive the copy of my entry each time somebody comments almost since the moment I first joined LJ.

Thing is, when the entry is pretty big (think fanfiction posts, analytic posts or fan meta posts, to name a few) and the number of top-level comments is pretty big, too, you get the copy of your own entry each friggin' time somebody replies to it. And having to scroll multiple screens is annoying, to say you the truth.

Besides, there are people who read notifications from their mobile devices which is a real pain in all the wrong places when you have to scroll, and scroll, and scroll...

There should be some way to fix it. There should be some checkbox or something that will let people truncate the quoted entry in comment notifications in case they want to.