Yes daisy he wants to reduce the amount of text that gets posted to Newsfeed from the other features (ie forum, blog, comments). His Newsfeed displays are too long.
Hope that helps.
Thanks Daisy :)
And for the forum and group posts Daisy, how to reduce how much text of those ends up on the newsfeed display? That was his primary concern was the text from the forums and groups as i understood it..
he did 2 forum test posts and compared the two as they were displayed in newsfeed,
Comparing 2 I found 958 and 928 on another.
So its not the 150 we see in forum init.php and i could find nothing Daisy that was even close to those numbers. My thought was since it is not the same they are 30 char apart, then maybe it is a percent and not a whole number truncate, but i could not find it Daisy..
i did notice some height designations in the newsfeed.js file in the static js folder but not sure those would do this, but could be.
Dave, we've tried to modify the number of characters on our test site and everything works fine, we could not reproduce the problem. Most probably Krunch has already done some modifications. So, to find the solution (if the problem still exists) we need to see it on the site. Thus, if you managed to reproduce the problem, please provide us with the site where we can see it and we will try to find the proper solution.
why not go to your > index page > click customise this page > click the forum widget settings > find Preview length for forum topic in characters input box and change the amount of characters there. the same can be done for blogs but you need to find Previw length instead of review length for forum topic in characters. not sure why your trying to change core code unless im mistaken and am not understanding you.
(Liquid Theme)
Krunch, I would appreciate if you reported this problem to theme developer.