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

[holyschist]

I used to think I wanted to read the full content, until I subscribed to the Smashing magazine feed, which posts LONG, very image-heavy articles in their entirety.

So I'd at least like an option.

[kyrielle]

I have found with feeds that don't give the full content, I might as well unlist most of them. Following the link, especially if I'm reading on my phone but even if I am reading on my computer, is almost never worth it to me and I just don't bother. I loathe feeds that give only partial data and prefer full, uncut text - I will happily scroll past it but I do not want to have to open a new page.

A feed that had humongous articles would either (if I were largely interested) be fine by me, or (if I weren't) be off my list. But a feed that had humongous articles that gave only a teaser and had an off-site link would be off my list unless the data was so critical to me that I couldn't bear to take it off my list. The bar for that is very very high for things other than journals maintained by personal friends.

[holyschist]

That's why I would want it to be an option rather than forced on everyone across the board.

[zvi]

You can pretty easily stop displaying the images, by adding

.journal-example_feed img { display: none; }

to your layout at http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options?group=customcss

[holyschist]

Hmmm. That might help, although the articles themselves are still very long.

[holyschist]

Yeah, that helps (thanks!), but that's still 10 page-downs to get past the latest article without images, which is still pretty annoying.