kevinjardine/shoutout — Issue #23: Shoutout character length displays negative
Author: naveensnayak
Created: 2012-02-21 21:30:55+00:00
State: open

Hello Kevin,
This is Naveen with the College of Education. Univ of Florida.

Was doing some testing with the Shout-out plugin for Smartstart and came across these things.

Bug 1: When you "copy paste" a large text into the shout out area, the character limits read negative ( eg -98 characters left)
Though mathematically correct, it would be good to display "You have exceeded the character limit, text will be truncated"

Bug 2: After a copy paste of large text, i am able to submit the entire content ( > allowed character limit ) - and its posted to the server. No truncation is done.
I think this behavior must be modified to give a user a message that the text will be truncated and the text must actually be truncated to the allowed limit

Feature Req: When a long shout out wraps on the river page, users see a ( ... ) three dot and the message is truncated. Users of smartstart reported that they did not know how to see the full content. Unless you know that clicking on the "time-stamp" leads you to the full post, its difficult for a regular user
Could you please add a "more" link for the truncated shout-outs -clicking which will have the same effect as clicking the time-stamp link in the shout-out heading