If a new item's description in the RSS feed is long (e.g., it contains the entire content of the post), then the toot that the Parrot sends about it can also be very long. Two examples of feeds with long content:
It is desirable to truncate the description at something like 250 chars in the toot. Otherwise the toots can be unpleasant to read, and they can clutter up the public timeline of instances.
If a new item's description in the RSS feed is long (e.g., it contains the entire content of the post), then the toot that the Parrot sends about it can also be very long. Two examples of feeds with long content:
https://rss-parrot.net/web/feeds/dev.to https://rss-parrot.net/web/feeds/ludic.mataroa.blog
It is desirable to truncate the description at something like 250 chars in the toot. Otherwise the toots can be unpleasant to read, and they can clutter up the public timeline of instances.