Truncated posts with "show more" (NOT quoted sections)

Not sure why that photo didn't show

Why is the show more button on this post?????

THERE IS NO MORE. Ffs this is bonkers.

@ProfessorBinturong that's it. It will be AI. You are right. They have bought in some AI consultancy company who have promised to use the site better with AI and they are causing havoc. And they won't reverse it all cos they then will have the explain to the big boss why they have wasted all the money.

Did you mean mine? I can see it in full. Maybe it's different for every device? Now, THAT would be fun...🙄

Ironically, I was reading something where the link to something was just being covered up by the See more button. So I didn't.

I'm already finding I'm just scrolling past. I read too much through procrastination anyway so this may, inadvertently, be a good thing. Unintended consequences.

The post above this cuts off half way down the last line.

Does clicking the see more button count for your click stats for showing advertisers your numbers?

I am leaning towards this, thanks @Error404FucksNotFound

Nor for me.

There's no consistency in how many lines are cut off, how many lines are before the cut off, or even which posts are truncated depending on who's looking at them. There's a post on one of the other threads about this that - for me - cuts off half way (vertically) through a line.

I have no idea how they coded this much chaos into the system, never mind why.

Actually, is it AI? Have they got ChatGPT to code it and not checked the results?

They're trying to be like Reddit, which is one of the least user-friendly websites there is.

Quite right, put a 'show more' option on ads rather than showing the full lot please and stop doing it on posts where Im trying to read what someone is saying. That is the full point of a chat forum

Awful - get rid of it

This

Nope, it's not. Ever since the edit function was introduced it's been possible to click on the text saying "edited" and see the full edit history.

Is this so that the long posts don't take up too much valuable advertising space? If there's a long post on screen then no space for an advert?

We'd had feedback that very long posts can mean a lot of scrolling, which disrupts the flow of a thread.

I just scrolled past 7 adverts, on one standard thread page on mobile, more than one of them the full page kind, and that’s not including the shopping section and the top banner, so 9 including them.

I don’t mind mumsnet needs to make money, but it’s is irritating that on a forum that’s based on user posts it’s being decided that long posts are what disrupts the flow of a thread. That’s the entire point of a forum! Posts!
You can’t with a straight face say a long post (some barely a paragraph!) is so disruptive to a forum that it needs to be hidden behind an annoying button, while having 7 adverts within the scroll of one page.

That post shows in full for me! How odd

It’s not truncated for me either.

It cut off my last two lines!!

I can’t see it myself, though, when I look at my own post. How strange we have different views.

Ffs. The irony.

I agree with those who say:

a) It should be optional;

b) Truncating quotes is ok after a few lines;

c) Truncating posts including the words ‘I asked ChatGPT for you, OP and …’ is a bloody great idea, and please truncate immediately after those words.

Otherwise, make MN whole again, for the reasons explained on the thread.

Perhaps MNHQ might focus a bit more on moderating the derailing of the contributions of posters (ie content writers) who frankly should be a bit more valued within the MN business model at this financial juncture for the site.

Oooh this could be it.

No, it’s not.

You've got some contractors or something in haven't you? Management consultancy types. Telling you to change all this stuff.

It's ok we will forgive you. Just practice saying "no" to them and ride it out until their contract is up.

Just TURN IT OFF. Why are you wasting time probably having 6777 meetings about this and getting your it dude to faff about? No one wants it.

Spend the money on instead

it is awful

Get rid of it ffs