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Since 0.17.1, the titles are truncated for whoever publishes from Friendica to Lemmy #2718

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informapirata opened this issue Feb 8, 2023 · 1 comment
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I noticed a deterioration in the user experience of Lemmy for those who publish from Friendica. The problem is with the truncation of titles.

Prior to Lemmy 0.17.1, this would happen to a Friendica user who made a post mentioning a Lemmy community:

  1. Existence of a title. If there is a title then go to 2) otherwise go to 3)
  2. Number of characters of the title: if it exceeds 200 characters, then go to 3), otherwise go to 4)
  3. the post will not be published on Lemmy
  4. the post will be published on Lemmy

Today (0.17.1), however, this happens:

  1. Existence of a title. If there is a title then go to 2) otherwise go to 3)
  2. Number of characters of the title: if it exceeds 100 characters, then go to 4), otherwise go to 5)
  3. the post will be published on Lemmy displaying in the "title" field, the first 100 characters of the message, including the metadata markers (link: https://lemmy.ml/post/748539 )
  4. the post will be published on Lemmy, but only the first 100 characters will be visible (link: https://lemmy.ml/post/748537 and https://lemmy.ml/post/748538 )
  5. the post will be published on Lemmy (link: https://lemmy.ml/post/748534 )
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I noticed a deterioration in the user experience of Lemmy for those who publish from Friendica. The problem is with the truncation of titles.

Attention: I apologize, but I understand that the problem does not concern the interaction between Lemmy and Friendica, but involves all interactions with different instances (all other instances: Lemmy instances or non-Lemmy instances).

Examples:

Post by feddit.it user displayed on feddit.it: the title is complete https://feddit.it/post/146353
The same post displayed on lemmy.ml: the title is visible up to the 100th character https://lemmy.ml/post/748943

Post by user lemmy.ml displayed on lemmy.ml: Title is complete https://lemmy.ml/post/749192
The same post displayed on feddit: the title is visible up to the 100th character https://feddit.it/post/146552

In practice, the system reads the full titles only in the same instance, but cuts those of the federation

Nutomic added a commit that referenced this issue Feb 9, 2023
I didnt notice that this limit would also apply to Lemmy and other
software which has the title field. So gonna change it to be
identical to db limit
Nutomic added a commit that referenced this issue Feb 20, 2023
I didnt notice that this limit would also apply to Lemmy and other
software which has the title field. So gonna change it to be
identical to db limit
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