Full articles........most of the time

[tobefirst ⚽️]

I have full articles on, as I don't want to have to click a read more link on each and every article on the homepage. However, I do think that a read more link would have been appropriate on this article. I developed a strained thumb scrolling through that on my phone.

Have you considered these rare, super long articles and how they fit in? I personally would do something to prevent this in the future, whether it is a permanent read more link or an iframe style box that the entire transcript sits in.

Obviously not a big deal, but just a thought on how to make the site .0264% better.

 

[WildCowboy]

Unfortunately, it looks like it's not really possible at the moment. Very few people use the permanently expanded view, so we've moved away from using the "more" tag and some of the changes we've made to the site in the interim mean it doesn't work quite right anymore.

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

Interesting. Are you able to break that out by member vs. nonmember? I would assume those of us who are deep enough into Apple to spend time on a message board would want to see the full articles all the time, but I could also see that maybe the majority of front page visitors aren't members. And I could also see how I'm projecting my usage onto others.

And I believe that the front page and the forum are separate structures so I understand how you might not even be able to see member vs. nonmember at all.

Regardless, thanks for the reply!

 

[WildCowboy]

Yeah, I don't have ready access to that data, but just due to the fact that collapsed is the default view, the vast majority of visitors will stick with that, most not even realizing there's a choice.

I asked our dev folks to look into tweaking things to make the "more" tag work properly again.

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

Did you do something? It looks like the photo comparison article has a read more link that works while leaving other articles alone.

 

[WildCowboy]

Did you do something? It looks like the photo comparison article has a read more link that works while leaving other articles alone.

We've got it working, although there are some formatting issues. It also doesn't play nicely with the boilerplate notice for articles with threads in the Political News forum. It's on our list to fix.