At the risk of opening the can of worms again: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Nostariel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Why does it have to be one or the other? And if we have to choose, I'm > sorry, but the auto-cut would be far more preferable to me. Not everyone > titles their posts, and of those who do, the titles often tell you jack > squat about the actual content of the post. Collapse would make it easier > for me to scroll, yes, but I've experimented with a custom S2 style that > does this (collapse all friends page posts to only their subject lines) and > in terms of making reading easier it's practically useless for me. For most > posts, I need a preview to decide whether or not I want to read the full > post at all. It's MY reading page, why should what you want take precedence > over what I find most accessible and usable? The collapse function I'm envisioning* would work like this: When you open your reading page, all the posts are shown in full (unless the post's writer has included a cut). You could click somewhere on the top of any post and collapse it to one line that shows the poster's username, the timestamp of the post, and if the writer included it, the subject line. The post -- and any others on your reading page that you collapse -- stay collapsed until you click in the same place again, and then the post expands back to the way it was. (You would have to click on each post that you wanted to collapse or expand.) It's not intended to make reading easier; it's intended to hide individual posts that, for whatever reason, you don't want to see while you read other posts on your reading page. It's also not intended to duplicate a killfile (that's already in the works, IIRC). ~ Rachel * I haven't the least idea what kind of code and/or technical work it would take to create this, and don't currently use a plugin or addon that does it, so take the vision with a grain of salt. -- http://www.lastsyllable.net http://bohemianeditor.dreamwidth.org This is not the sig you're looking for.
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