Make automatic cuts in feeds

[mecurtin]

Title:
Make automatic cuts in feeds

Area:
Feeds

Summary:
Make it possible to force cuts in feeds (or other entries, but feeds in particular)

Description:
I've been consolidating my feeds on DW, and while some of them (e.g. http://alistapart-feed.dreamwidth.org/ ) use excerpts for their feeds, others (e.g. http://smashing-feed.dreamwidth.org/) do not. I know that the difference is in the way they've set up their feeds, but I'd like to be able to force cut tags for certain journals, or for a class of journals such as feeds.

Poll #3305 Make automatic cuts in feeds

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 45

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Should be implemented as-is.
19 (42.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
10 (22.2%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
6 (13.3%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (17.8%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (4.4%)

Comments

[zvi]

I confess, I have pretty much zero understanding of the overflow property, so possibly that would clear up all of the overlapping problems I've previously seen.

I do know that picking a really good minimum can be hard, because there are several different parts of an entry as displayed on a reading page. I wouldn't pick .journal-type-y as my class, without specifying that it's the entry text portion that I wanted to hide. I would want the entry links to remain visible, and probably to keep the title from taking up any of the restricted space.