Post urls are truncated along with their text in RSS feed

[crelf]

When you have a long link in an article, the RSS feed post shortens it. For example:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/935BA7FB426305398625711E0055F1FA

becomes

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/935...625711E0055F1FA

...but the actualy url of the link's hotspot is also shortened. I don't mind the text displayed being editing, but shouldn't the actual url remain unedited? This means that, to follow a link, you need to first follow the "Read More" link to the forum, and then find and click on the link you were looking for. It'd much more inuative to just follow the link from the RSS posting.

Currently, it looks like this:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/935...625711E0055F1FA

It should like like this:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/935...625711E0055F1FA

[TobyD]

QUOTE (crelf @ Apr 1 2008, 05:27 AM)

When you have a long link in an article, the RSS feed post shortens it.

I am seeing this too. I use Outlook 2007 as my reader. The long link that you placed inside the code tags came through unaltered though :thumbup: .

[Michael Aivaliotis]

The problem is that people don't use anchor text in their posts. Instead of using friendly text they post the whole thing. The above URL should be posted like this. Notice that I used the word "this" as my anchor, NOT the entire URL.

Let me spare you the the thought process. YES, I AM blaming all the LAVA forum members for this problem and NOT the RSS generator.

PS. I'll look into it...

[Yair]

On the upside, the forums now display the anchor text in the email reply notifications (in parentheses). :thumbup:

[Michael Aivaliotis]

Update: I passed this over to Invision support. It might be a bug. They're looking into it.

[crelf]

QUOTE (Michael_Aivaliotis @ Apr 1 2008, 01:21 PM)

YES, I AM blaming all the LAVA forum members for this problem and NOT the RSS generator.

Pffffffffft!

QUOTE (Michael_Aivaliotis @ Apr 1 2008, 10:04 PM)

Update

: I passed this over to Invision support. It might be a bug. They're looking into it.

Sweet - thanks!