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metabolist / metatext

A free, open-source iOS Mastodon client.
https://metabolist.org/metatext
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Limit post display length in feed #208

Open RobATX opened 2 years ago

RobATX commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Limit post display length to maybe first paragraph or 15 lines in feed with a show more option.

Describe the solution you'd like Keep long posts from causing scroll fatigue reviewing feed.

Describe alternatives you've considered Some of the other apps do this.

Additional context N/A

codebykat commented 2 years ago

I would really love to see Metatext support this since the maximum number of characters allowed per post is configurable by server admins, and some of them are set so high they are basically blog posts.

alexbbrown commented 1 year ago

+1 for this. Yesterday I found a 9854 character post in the federated feed. I had to scroll for ages to get past it.

codebykat commented 1 year ago

As an addendum this is especially frustrating if you're scrolling bottom-to-top with CW's auto-expanded, and after scrolling all the way to the top of a post, you see that it has CWs that would have allowed you to collapse the content from the top. (Especially when the CWs say something like "long post, boring" 😂)

I'm not sure what UI would be better there but there probably is one. Maybe if the CWs were floating or something so you could collapse them from the bottom too, or an arrow to skip to the top/bottom of a post, or something like that.