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

[feathertail]

Maybe just have feeds automatically cut off after a few hundred to a thousand words? In case of really, really long essays or something. That way it wouldn't require any user intervention.

(Are people allowed to do anything with feeds besides name them and create them, right now?)

[zvi]

This is great if it's a per-user, per-feed option. It's terrible if it's applied across the board.

[livrelibre]

I would love having this option for myself. Right now I have a script installed that will let me collapse or delete them entirely but usually I just want to shorten it so it's not taking up my entire page.

[holyschist]

I don't know enough about the technical aspects to vote, but I have actually been considering dropping the Smashing feed because it is GINORMOUS and if I don't want to read right away, that's a lot of scrolling. So I'd like something.

[denise]

Just FYI for those who might be checking in on this: it's marked rejected because I think that this suggestion is a better way to handle it, since it's not just limited to feeds.