feature request: shorten quotes when messages are long #1

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flash · 2025-09-20T22:23:44Z

flash commented

2025-09-20 22:23:44 +00:00

This isn't so much a necessity for short messages, but when people are replying to really long/multiline messages things get a little ridiculous in the backlog. Maybe if a message exceeds a certain length strip it down to [quote]First part of the message ... last part of the message.[/quote]. That should still perfectly do the job at conveying exactly what is being replied to. I don't have an example screenshot or w/e to show because this is a response to something that happened yesterday I think? Like three people all responded to the same very long messages LOL

I don't use the userscript myself because as the main developer of the software I think I should run things raw, but I do think you did a great job with this!

This isn't so much a necessity for short messages, but when people are replying to really long/multiline messages things get a little ridiculous in the backlog. Maybe if a message exceeds a certain length strip it down to `[quote]First part of the message ... last part of the message.[/quote]`. That should still perfectly do the job at conveying exactly what is being replied to. I don't have an example screenshot or w/e to show because this is a response to something that happened yesterday I think? Like three people all responded to the same very long messages LOL I don't use the userscript myself because as the main developer of the software I think I should run things raw, but I do think you did a great job with this!

lester self-assigned this

2025-09-24 05:44:59 +00:00

lester commented

2025-09-24 05:45:14 +00:00

Thanks for the suggestion flash, exactly the kind of feedback I'm looking for as I can't really test all cases myself. Initially I only limited the preview but I now can see why it'd be a problem in chat.

I've implemented a slicing function in the latest commit so both the preview and actual quote content is limited to ~100 chars (approx as not to cut off in the middle of a word).

Now I hope the script auto-updates on everyone else's end.

Thanks for the suggestion flash, exactly the kind of feedback I'm looking for as I can't really test all cases myself. Initially I only limited the preview but I now can see why it'd be a problem in chat. I've implemented a slicing function in the latest commit so both the preview and actual quote content is limited to ~100 chars (approx as not to cut off in the middle of a word). Now I hope the script auto-updates on everyone else's end. ![image](/attachments/c6cd4837-48f1-4a9c-971f-318b75f4f6af)

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