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

[AromanticSpices]

I've just seen this on posts - having to click "show more" if the post is longer than a handful of lines.

Please please bin this off! I want to scroll and read posts without having to constantly click!

And let's not discourage longer nuanced posts by implying they breach some (very short) length limit...

It's awful.
(NB I'm not talking about quoted sections... literally just text posted in a post)

Can you please also take into account actual accessibility as well as scrollability? Having to negotiate extra clicks can be problematic for people with mobility issues. I too think this feature should be one that can be opted out of (or better yet, switched on if readers want it).

Far easier to scroll than to click a little link in every post and then scroll to the next post, click a little link in that one, scroll to the next post, click a little link..

We'll end up with txt spk which is already hard to understand with typos, autocorrect etc!
Or people making multiple posts to
Get
All
Their
Points
In

Also if we want to make threads more readable, can we have SEVERE penalties for people not reading the thread or at least OP's posts?

Easier to scan? Nobody is scanning. We're reading.

Go read one of the tribunal threads. We don't want a section of any of those posts, we want the whole thing with no need for an extra click on each one!

And, as pp have said, the needs of those with mobility issues, RSI etc ought to be paramount.

At the very least, give us some controls over this nonsense.

I scroll past the very long - usually ChatGPT - posts myself so don't need the Read more option, because I won't.

Exactly or any post that starts 'well this is a long one OP but let me tell you my story'

Scroll down immediately.

I don't mean to be rude, but that cannot be true surely - do these people know how to use a mobile phone?

It is trivially easy to "flick" and scroll quickly (as opposed to scrolling slowly by keeping your thumb on the screen).

It is a complete PITA to have to individually click to open each post when a thread has up to 1000 posts. Surely no-one can think that clicking a fiddly link (on the wrong side of the screen for right handed users) 1000 times is easier, than simply scrolling through a thread either quickly or slowly.

(If people don't want to read long posts perhaps they would be better off on the platform formerly known as Twitter?)

I'm seeing it for the first time today. It's not being applied consistently - looks like a bug in how it's actually working, to me.

I don't want this @MNHQ, can it be removed? Bit weird that you want people to read less on a thread and to interrupt our reading to make a comment display properly.
If we don't want to read a comment we can easily scroll past, it doesn't need to be cropped.

Why has it come back?

Apologies all! This was turned on briefly this morning for testing but was turned off again a few minutes later.

We're continuing to look into all your thoughts and feedback and are making adjustments.

What makes you think we even want it?
Of the many many suggestions both sensible and batcrap crazy that I've read on here, please cut posts off so you have to click a tiny see more button to read them is one I definitely missed!