Truncated Quotes in Replies

[heyzeus909]

It's annoying when someone always uses the "quote" option to reply to a thread - especially if it's a long post that they're quoting. They either do this purely because they're lazy, or because they want to make it clear to whom they're responding which means that quoting a giant post really isn't necessary (just quoting a snippet of it would do). This is one argument for a truncated post mod.

Moreover, it would really help those of us that use DBTech Live Feed in the sideblock on the forum home page. When un-truncated posts show up in the Live Feed sideblock, it either makes the sideblock really long, or, if the quoted posts themselves are extra long, then it messes up the quote formatting in the sideblock (if the quoted post contains more characters than the sideblock is allowed to have, then the "/quote" tag doesn't render). Truncated posts would resolve these issues.

There's a mod on vb.org for this, but it hasn't been updated in a while. And it uses jquery to allow clicking on a link to reveal the portion that was truncated. This is frankly more complicated than it needs to be. Just a simple 'maximum characters before truncation' option for quoted posts would suffice nicely.

Truncated posts would just make for a better forum experience all around, but especially when used in conjunction with Live Feed.

Thanks for your consideration.

 

[Cosmic]

I like this idea. Fillip H., thoughts?

 

[Fillip H.]

Would you be able to link us to the mod on vB.org so I can get a better idea of what's going on?

I think xF has something similar as well, and if I'm imagining this right I'd definitely want to include the expansion feature.

 

[heyzeus909]

Would you be able to link us to the mod on vB.org so I can get a better idea of what's going on?

I think xF has something similar as well, and if I'm imagining this right I'd definitely want to include the expansion feature.

This is the link for the only 4.X mod I saw on vb.org.

dbd Truncate Quotes - vBulletin.org Forum

The jQuery thing isn't necessary, imo, since vBulletin already includes the "View Post" link (see the above quote )next to the username of the post being quoted. Clicking on the "View Post" arrow allows someone to click on it to view the original post, if needed.


As it is, I've had to disable Live Feed previews from the sideblock. This mod would be really handy. Thanks.