Excerpt long posts and add read more button
Tuija Maria
Long posts take up A LOT of space on threads, especially on mobile. Can we please shorten them (like on FB for example) and show only the first few sentences and then add a read more button?
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Nick Barba
Merged in a post:
Threads List View and Cards View
David Hooper
As my community gets busier, I'm finding it harder and harder to stay on top of messages. It would be great if we could have both titles for posts as well as a "list view" to stay on top of higher-volume forums.
Guy M2
This is absolutely necessary. Heartbeat right now is very unfocused when it comes to finding or engaging with topics, because it's just a scroll of posts.
There are no titles required (https://heartbeat.canny.io/feature-requests/p/adding-titles-to-threads-post), and the posts are huge with lots of padding.
I would like to see a simple discussion list, with the Title, maybe an excerpt, and a number of comments. Similar to many other forums. E.g., example screenshot that Misty Dorman posted a couple of years ago. E.g., another example screenshot from another website.
The simple list view of topics makes it so much easier to quickly find/see/digest/engage with topics as a user.
Not even as an admin - but users themselves can see all the topics in a much easier-to-see list. This encourages engagement.
And as an admin - it makes it far easier to use.
I believe Circle has this option.
I would like to see:-
- Require Titles for all posts. This will just make everything clearer across the board.
- The view type of posts as a setting for each area - Threads (like now) or List.
Some areas might benefit from a more "threads-type" view, and others might benefit more from a List-type view. Circle has this option - to set the view type per area.
- Options for what shows in List cards (so before click-through) - Title, excerpt, number of comments, number of views, profile pictures of commenters, etc.
- Users themselves can choose the view type to fit what they like.
Guy M2
Just to add - look how much cleaner and easier it is to read posts in a Circle set-up, where there are Titles for each post, comments don't show automatically, etc.
It's much easier to read, to see what a post is about, and to not get overwhelmed by all the text and other information (because it doesn't show any comments - it only shows the post title, a content excerpt, then number of comments).
The current set-up of Heartbeat "Threads" is quite difficult to read and want to engage with, because it's a bunch of text (full text of a post, a number of comments), and is unclear and unfocused what a post is about (because of no title). This makes it quite overwhelming to look at, and makes a user not want to engage with it.
I would really like to see Heartbeat have these things Circle has - forced Titles, do not display comments (only a comment count icon), excerpt length choices, etc.
This will only help to increase engagement.
Hope that makes sense!
David Hooper
Guy M2 This would be a shot in the arm to Heartbeat communities and make them so much more powerful. What's the chance of this happening, Nick Barba?
Nick Barba
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Pinned posts are excerpt & not obvious that there's more to read
Misty Dorman
Pinned post in a thread get cut off as an excerpt & need a "continue" or "keep reading" or "read more" type of button, in case it's not obvious it needs to be expanded.
Joanna-Roselyn maggs
This would be so much better, definitely. hope this is done soon
Sawrah Amini
This would be so much better than what exists on the new mobile. It's just three dots and looks like the post is cut off. There is nothing that currently indicates to our community members that they can click on the post to read more or to have it continue. People are scrolling by and getting partial posts instead of being guided further into the post. I super support this one!
Busthon Amil
It is better to not only add number of replies dan views, but also the top user and last date of the activities. Even though this community from OpenAI made using Discourse (open source), but the features are really mature, I predict this will be a trend in the near future. Where people go to a channel to find a viral topic of discussion rather than recent post (similar to threaded comment on social media such as Tiktok and IG where comment (topic) can liked and replied and the number of likes can be shown.
Nick Barba
Merged in a post:
Card view for Threads
Eric ("E.R.") Burgess
Much like in Circle, it would be ideal to have card-style threads where a person can showcase items in blocks. For us, we'd use this for sales of individual items by users.
Nick Barba
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Change/choose the view type for previous posts
Adrian Dalsus
Include the ability to change/choose the view type for previous posts within a thread.
Having an overview of what has been discussed in recent weeks allows you to identify topics and conversations that catch your attention and read/join them with a click away.
Currently in Heartbeat, all posts look as if they were already open, which forces us to scroll for a long time (depending on the length of each post) to see just a few conversations.
I'm sure this feature would allow for an experience more similar to what most users are used to online: searching and finding information quickly.
Lene Dybdahl
Please vote for this. It would greatly improve user experience. I am loosing members because of the too long posts.
Lene Dybdahl
Please consider this!
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