truncated crossposts

[kaigou]

Title:
truncated crossposts

Area:
crossposting

Summary:
Add option to truncate posts when crossposted, so that entire post is not reproduced elsewhere.

Description:
Like many folks, I crosspost so non-DW people can see the entry on their flist, but I don't care for having the entirety of every post kept in multiple places. I'd much rather provide some kind of summary/entry section as teaser, and require that reading the rest means coming back to DW (which is also the only place I have comments turned on, as well).

Perhaps default be the first X number of characters, or stop at the cut (with cut being link to the DW post?). Which gets used would be dependent on which is programmatically easier. ETA: to clarify, this would be optional per post. You could crosspost as normal, with the entire thing going elsewhere, and then on the next post you could opt to truncate. [See comments from some other suggestions on how truncating might work.]

I'd be happy either way, so long as the objective of "only a little posted elsewhere, and must come to main (DW) journal to read the rest" is achieved.

Poll #2525 truncated crossposts

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Should be implemented as-is.
36 (48.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
16 (21.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
11 (14.7%)

(I have no opinion)
12 (16.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[cheyinka]

First X characters means HTML tags might be left unclosed (or might be truncated, themselves) and since that could wreck someone's entire friendslist page, that's no good - but truncating at the first cut would work.