MetaTalk

Sometimes comments in recent activity get truncated with a "[...]" when they run too long. Could we allow MeFites to customize this aggressiveness? For instance, I've currently got a thread at the top of Recent Activity that contains a number of comments such as this one (9,414 characters over five paragraphs) and this one (11,121 characters over six paragraphs). These walls of text make it difficult to navigate. If I could choose the point at which comments are truncated (say, two paragraphs or 1,000 characters, whichever comes second) I -and maybe others?- would be a happy camper. Is this a cool and reasonable idea?
posted by Going To Maine on Jan 29, 2015 - 73 comments

Google ads on AskMe pages makes them very confusing to read (for non-members who see them). Is it possible to visually separate them a bit more from the content? Or move the ads below the "More Inside" content?
posted by spiderskull on Dec 17, 2011 - 66 comments

hey! Cool new triangle linked comment highlight! [more inside]
posted by peachfuzz on Oct 20, 2011 - 112 comments

Request/suggestion: fixed width Metafilter. [more inside]
posted by washburn on Jul 5, 2010 - 83 comments

This is just a gentle request for posters of RelationshipFilter -- please use names, even made up ones, instead of letters. [more inside]
posted by jacquilynne on Oct 27, 2008 - 78 comments

I like My Favorites when it's legible... [more inside]
posted by SpiffyRob on Feb 1, 2008 - 4 comments

Readability Results for http://www.metafilter.com:
Gunning Fog Index 10.70

Typical Fog Index Scores:
6 TV guides, The Bible, Mark Twain
8 Reader's Digest
8 - 10 Most popular novels
10 Time, Newsweek
11 Wall Street Journal
14 The Times, The Guardian
15 - 20 Academic papers
Over 20 Only government sites can get away with this, because you can't ignore them.
Over 30 The government is covering something up

We're just like Time and Newsweek!
posted by mathowie on Apr 24, 2005 - 35 comments