Explicitly showing truncation on latest page

[azurelunatic]

Title:
Explicitly showing truncation on latest page

Area:
latest entries

Summary:
When entry is truncated for length on latest page, make it clear that there's more to the entry.

Description:
Entries on http://www.dreamwidth.org/latest are truncated if they are longer that a certain length, but there's no clear indication that this is happening. Once you've read it a bit, you catch on that perhaps people post longer things, or that the mid-sentence or mid-word drop-off was perhaps not how things actually were, but it isn't immediately obvious.

Easiest way I can think of is to stick a ( Read more ... ), or whatever the default text is for the <cut> tag, linking to the entry, directly after the cutoff point, to make it obvious that there's more, it just didn't fit on the page.

Poll #2486 Explicitly showing truncation on latest page

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 49

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Should be implemented as-is.
48 (98.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
1 (2.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[cesy]

I thought I'd suggested this somewhere already? Maybe I just meant to and never did.

[yvi]

Actually, you did! http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2126

(This was brought to you by a support request a user submitted regarding this and then closed with a link to that bug. Strange coincidences!)

[auroraprimavera]

I would love to see this feature. It took me a while to realize that there is usually more to a post than what I see on the page.

[ratcreature]

I never knew that. I've only browsed that page a few times and never noticed.