Testing the "Show Full Post" button

this. they happen consistently, but not necessarily frequently. will definitely post all the ones I find here.

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I think there are some deep misunderstandings about what the button is supposed to do. Please click the “Reader” button on your browser (Safari, Edge, Firefox) and compare. That’s what it’s supposed to do.

Interestingly there is no reader mode in Chrome but there is this hack:

That said, I am open to a “couldn’t pull any body, so just pull the first video or image” algorithm that kicks in when readability / reader mode fails.

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wow, speak of the devil:

in the permalink, there is a pic followed by a sentence of text, a bunch of pics, and then a few more sentences of text.

from my experience, usually how it works is: videos are always removed but any text surrounding them comes through, pics usually do come through (I’ve noticed that comics generally don’t, though) but sometimes nothing comes through at all, like above.

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My issue is not removing as many distracting elements as possible, but rather including as many pertinent elements as possible. I think this is what most people were asking for in the other thread.

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One thing I noticed, and I don’t know if it’s a feature or a bug, but if I am looking at the full post, the whole page periodically refreshes, presumably to update notifications on my icon and new items added to the post, but the full post content collapses in the refresh.

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So here’s an example of a typical Show Full Post failure.

Show Full Post is very insistent on signing up people to the newsletter.


I like how the Onebox of the actual article page gives a little video preview. Very slick.

And this is what Reader view on Firefox on Windows looks like.


Now here’s an interesting case.

The intro paragraph to this post shows up on the BBS even without clicking Show Full Post. Perhaps that’s because it’s a featured article and not a regular blog post?


Either way, Show Full Post pulls in all the images, but not the video.

Interestingly, the Onebox of the article grabs the header image that Show Full Post ignored.

In fact, Reader view didn’t bother to show any images at all, and it skipped the intro paragraph that the BBS showed.


And another oddball example:

Show Full Post gets us this:


Which is a weird combination of what the Reader view sees:

Plus this random comment from about halfway down the BBS thread:

Because, as it turns out, there are five comments from the BBS thread embedded into the BB article, but not displayed.


Okay, one last one. This is a typical Show Full Post malfunction

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All these minor bugs aside, I do get why the videos and sometimes other content don’t make it through. If they did, I (and many others) would only read BoingBoing through the ad-free BBS, and so no ad revenue would come from us. So I don’t really mind clicking through to the blog on those occasions.

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Fair point but clicking the button and getting literally nothing kinda sucks. It is those cases I object to most not “oops missing a video but the text is otherwise there”

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We’re with ya 100℅ on that, but how do we fix that? Ensure the bloggers never post video content without commentary?

Like I said, I don’t mind going the extra click to see that stuff. It’s a minor annoyance, but if that’s the price for keeping the BBS from being too much of a revenue-loser to keep around, then I’ll gladly pay it.

I’ll take this opportunity to once again voice my support for some kind of tip jar thingy to keep the BBS lights on. This community is important to me, and I want to actively support the platform.

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Perhaps a default message about posts containing multimedia content and suggesting a click through. Something a little more verbose than “subscribe to the newsletter”

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not a bad idea :thumbsup:

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Have you considered subscribing to the newsletter, though?

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What the SFP button is “supposed” to do and what we expect it to do seem to differ.

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Always.

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It’s a short post thing.

I tried that the last time you suggested it and it didn’t work.


Show Full Post yada yada…

But Reader View on Firefox shows the entire post - all the words, all the images.

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@codinghorror here’s another one:

Blog post:

BBS post:

Here’s how it shows in Chrome:

This is definitely not a short post and has a lot of text.

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Looks like it’s working now, but I can’t read it because of the damn ellipsis bug keeps making the content go away. :frowning:

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yeah, fix the ellipsis bug. I had to go to boingboing.net to read the Trump Golden Showers post, rather than bbs.boingboing.net … clearly a design fault since we are never supposed to emerge from the depths

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Indeed. Us CHUDs need to keep a low profile.

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