Shorter references to the original entry in e-mail comment notifications

[syderia]

Title:
Shorter references to the original entry in e-mail comment notifications

Area:
e-mail comments notification

Summary:
Put only the subject and the x first characters of the entry instead of the whole text of the entry in the e-mail notification.

Description:
Right now, when someone comment on an entry (or a comment, but it's less of a problem) you wrote and you get the notification by e-mail, you see the whole text of your entry. If you had a big entry (fanfiction, pic!spam...) scrolling past it can get annoying fast.

Quoting only the subject and the 42 first characters (or another number) before quoting the comment would allow the original poster to identify their entry and get to the important information right away.

The text of the notification would go something like that :
User replied to your Dreamwidth entry titled [Title] which started with [the first 42 characters or whatever number]. Their reply was ...

Poll #1115 Shorter references to the original entry in e-mail comment notifications

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 59

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Should be implemented as-is.
7 (11.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
25 (42.4%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
24 (40.7%)

(I have no opinion)
2 (3.4%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.7%)

Comments

[the_shoshanna]

It makes me sad that I am not in a position to be familiar with the iPhone's interface *g*