Truncate long quote histories

[GarlicFound]

I keep meaning to ask for this! I use the quote history feature a lot - but it gets ridiculous after 10 quotes. Apart from the extremely long scrolling required, the earlier quotes reduce in width until there's just one letter per column, which makes them unreadable anyway.

Could you limit the full quotes to five or six? You could still put the username, date and time of preceding quotes so that over-invested pedants (me) can find them as needed.

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Hi @GarlicFound - thanks for asking about this. We're aware of this issue and it's something we're working on as we can see that multiple quoted posts rapidly become unreadable.

We can't give you a timeline at this stage, but a fix for this is definitely in the pipeline.

Thanks, @JoMumsnet. I look forward to it!

Agree. Quoting has become ridiculously cumbersome.

Limit quotes quoted to the most recent 3 or 4 preceding the one being quoted, and put links to the preceding ones in the chain.

I would add not quoting the whole post if it is long, but just the first 100-150 words, and include a link to the full post.

Hey @GarlicFound and @Aparecium,

We’re looking at ways to improve quoting on Mumsnet and would really value your thoughts.

If you’ve got a couple of minutes, please take our quick survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TVN5BVG

Your feedback will help shape how conversations work on the site- thank you!

Oh, they're much better! Thanks!

I put in my responses that my ideal preference would be B (quotes revealed one at a time) but with the option to close them all at once.

Survey done.

My impression was that with option B closing any quote closed all the quotes beneath it. So that would be the option to close them all at once.

I forgot to my comment about the length of quotes at the end of the survey:

Can quotes only ever show the first 100-150 words of the post being quoted, with a ‘full quote’ to press to see the rest? It’s particularly annoying when there’s a massive OP and a poster quotes it un-necessarily.