[Feature request] Allow possibility to truncate/shorten content of feed items for better readability

[raphraph]

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Explain the Problem

When an RSS feed contains the full article/blog post, the entire content of the feed is displayed in the feed view. This is a normal behavior.
But when mixing feeds (in a same folder for example) that display only a preview of the content, and feeds that display the entire content, the "previews" are drowned in the middle of the "full content" items.

The feature request is to add an option for each feed which permits to truncate/shorten/limite the size of the feed item to an acceptable size (this is to be defined). For example a simple checkbox "truncate content".

Steps to Reproduce

Explain what you did to encounter the issue

1. Add feeds showing "previews" and feeds showing "entire contents" in one folder
2. View the aggregated items of the folder

System Information

• News app version: 12.0.4
• Nextcloud version: 13.0.5
• Browser and version: Firefox
• Distribution and version: Windows/Ubuntu

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[raphraph]

Nobody is having the same "inconvenience" ?
Does that mean that most users use the news feed to directly read the news contents ?
Personally I choose what I want to read among all the feed items, and I just do not find it convenient to have to choose by scrolling through entire articles instead of previews...

Though I agree that sites proposing rss feed should always propose at least a feed containing only previews and why not a complete content feed for those who wants...
But I thought it would be maybe easier to solve this "problem" directly here.

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[ashkitten]

i'm trying to move over from feedly, and this surprised me. i expected for there to be a view similar to feedly's "magazine view" but there's only the condensed view which is hard for me to parse, or the full articles stacked on each other. i like how feedly does it where article previews are shown and then you can click on them to show in a separate pane that slides out. this also has the benefit of a meaningful scrollbar you can use to see your progress through a specific article, instead of your progress through every article in your feeds.

[pstast]

I also would like to have this feature in News. It is very hard to read the news stream when some websites are publishing whole article content in RSS - for example CloudFlare blog.

[powerpaul17]

I think this is especially a problem of the current "expand" the items view. In the frontend rewrite there will be a 3-pane layout which will make this issue essentially obsolete IMO.