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[personal profile] briarwood

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.

Poll #2472 Copy of posts in email should respect cut-tag
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 63


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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%)

starwatcher: Western windmill, clouds in background, trees around base. (Default)
[personal profile] starwatcher

Title:
Add email hosting service

Area:
Server use (?)

Summary:
I'd like to see a separate, paid feature, wherein Dreamwidth offered email hosting service.

Description:
Since becoming net-capable, I seem to change my ISP every couple of years. (Usually to upgrade to better/faster service.) Changing my email addy each time is an irritation. Obviously, I need a permanent addy that won't change with my ISP.

I was considering G-mail, but the recent forced opt-in of Buzz makes me reconsider. That kind of behavior is why I prefer to pay DW than LJ for my social networking.

But any free email service - Yahoo, Hotmail - has similar problems with ads and promoting 'features'. I am considering paying a hosting service, buying a domain name, and using that as an email base. But I'm pretty non-tech-inclined, and afraid of jumping into issues I don't know how to handle.

I wondered if DW would be open to hosting an email service, for a stated monthly fee above the regular costs.

The service probably wouldn't be a BIG draw, so I suspect (hope) the servers could handle it, especially if storage space is limited and temporary. Nothing like Gmail's 7000+ MB, but enough that people can send/receive several large files before downloading to their own computer.

It may be just a pipe dream, but I'd sure like to have starwatcher @ dreamwidth.org as an email addy.

Poll #2305 Add email hosting service
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 43


This suggestion:

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Should be implemented as-is.
2 (4.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
33 (76.7%)

(I have no opinion)
7 (16.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

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