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EarlG

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1. When you say "clipped" do you mean that the paragraphs end with a "..."
Thu Oct 19, 2023, 05:41 PM
Oct 2023

Late in the evening, a few new items are auto-posted to the DU home page -- they're the most discussed LBN threads from the last few hours. When those threads are added to the home page, we have to provide some way to cut off the text because we obviously can't display the entire article on the home page. So the software grabs the first few hundred characters of text from the post and then puts a "..." at the end to indicate that there's more to read if you click through.

On weekday mornings I manually select the items for the DU homepage. Because I add the items manually, I'm able to select an appropriate amount of text and make sure it's formatted correctly. There's no need for an automatic "..." cut off at the end.

However, on mobile devices, the home page items, even the ones I've added manually, are truncated automatically with the "..." in order to save vertical space.

So that would be why you see the threads presented slightly differently at different times of the day, or on different devices. Hope that makes sense.

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