Copy of posts in email should respect cut-tag

[briarwood]

Title:
Copy of posts in email should respect cut-tag

Area:
Comments

Summary:
When someone replies to a post, the emailed copy of the post should respect the cut-tag.

Description:
Every time someone comments on a post, the email I get includes a full copy of the post replied to, as well as their response. This is really useful.

However, with Dreamwidth allowing such huge posts, occasionally this makes for one giant email. For example, a 50,000 word story that needed at least five separate posts on LJ, fits into a single post here (which I love!). When someone comments on the story, I get the whole 50,000 words in an email, plus that comment, which might be just a few words. Gmail automatically truncates such big emails, which means I have to click through several times before I can even read the comment. The links to read and reply online are at the bottom, so I can't get to them easily either. Worse, when I'm checking my mail on my mobile phone I have to download a huge email and scroll through the whole thing to get to the part I want to read. This is really, really slow, and while I love having a copy of most posts so I can make sense of comments easily, in cases like this it's much more trouble than it's worth.

Would it be possible for the emailed copy of the post to either cut off at a certain length or, better still, to respect a cut-tag, so the copy looks like the version people will see on friends pages? That would be more than enough for me to know what is being responded to, and I'd actually be able to read the emailed comment.

Poll #2472 Copy of posts in email should respect cut-tag

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 63

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Should be implemented as-is.
24 (38.1%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
15 (23.8%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
18 (28.6%)

(I have no opinion)
2 (3.2%)

(Other: please comment)
4 (6.3%)

Comments

[ratcreature]

Hasn't this been a suggestion before to truncate long emails?

I'm still really against it, because I use this comment-with-full-entry email function as a one step thing to archive story copies for myself, and to have discussion posts searchable in my Gmail account and such. That all would be pointless if I only got part of the original entry text.

[jumpuphigh]

Oh, yes, please.

I would prefer to the cut tag myself.

[medrin]

I know that you're trying to keep the options down, but there are already an option for 'Cut entries in inbox', which I assume means that the messages to the inbox get the cut tag (I'm not sure, I don't have it checked). Why not make this option work for the emails too? I'm assuming that the same people who want them cut in the inbox will want them cut in the emails.

[azurelunatic]

Absolutely not, unless it were an option one could turn on.

However, I would be all for moving the useful links up to the top.

[everysecondtuesday]

I like the idea of moving read and reply links to the top, but would prefer either having the option in settings to have e-mail respect the cut tag or continue to post in full or, given the option of only one or the other, would prefer to continue to have the post in full.

[musyc]

Big no. I keep emailed copies of comments because they provide the entire post for me. Would only want this if it were opt-in.

[order_of_chaos]

I'd quite like an option (optional opt-in option) to have emails respect the cut-tag if over a certain length, and just act like normal if not over that length. Maybe even make us able to choose the length at which to start respecting the cut.

[stellar_dust]

Add me to the "make it opt-in, highly customizable, and/or put comments at the top" group.

[zing_och]

I don't want this. I'm not always online and would have to re-establish an internet connection after downloading mail to see the whole post.

It'd be good if the comment were at the top of the post, though.

[goodbyebird]

A cut off at a certain length would be useful, though only when it's a very long post.

[cesy]

I really want to keep the ability to archive a whole post or whole discussion.

[triadruid]

I desperately want this; the comments above about using it as an archive make no sense to me, as it's not the *purpose* of comment notifications to serve as an archive. There are a gazillion ways to purposefully archive your posts - why does this feature have to have double-purpose which makes it so hard to use for its original purpose? :(

[sofiaviolet]

What about modifying the Cut Tag in Inbox from its current one-ticky form to "Cut entries in []Inbox []comment notification emails"?

While it does add an option, it puts the new option right next to a related one, and avoids adding another section to the Display tab.

Issues: Display tab might be a non-intuitive place to look for an email content setting.