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Title:
Copy of posts in email should respect cut-tag
Area:
Comments
Summary:
When someone replies to a post, the emailed copy of the post should respect the cut-tag.
Description:
Every time someone comments on a post, the email I get includes a full copy of the post replied to, as well as their response. This is really useful.
However, with Dreamwidth allowing such huge posts, occasionally this makes for one giant email. For example, a 50,000 word story that needed at least five separate posts on LJ, fits into a single post here (which I love!). When someone comments on the story, I get the whole 50,000 words in an email, plus that comment, which might be just a few words. Gmail automatically truncates such big emails, which means I have to click through several times before I can even read the comment. The links to read and reply online are at the bottom, so I can't get to them easily either. Worse, when I'm checking my mail on my mobile phone I have to download a huge email and scroll through the whole thing to get to the part I want to read. This is really, really slow, and while I love having a copy of most posts so I can make sense of comments easily, in cases like this it's much more trouble than it's worth.
Would it be possible for the emailed copy of the post to either cut off at a certain length or, better still, to respect a cut-tag, so the copy looks like the version people will see on friends pages? That would be more than enough for me to know what is being responded to, and I'd actually be able to read the emailed comment.
This suggestion:
Should be implemented as-is.
24 (38.1%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
15 (23.8%)
Shouldn't be implemented.
18 (28.6%)
(I have no opinion)
2 (3.2%)
(Other: please comment)
4 (6.3%)