[hibernate-dev] [in.relation.to] Only display post summary in list pages

[Guillaume Smet]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 2:23 PM, Yoann Rodiere <yoann at hibernate.org> wrote:

> It's definitely better. There are a few drawbacks, such as the summary not
> displaying for older, non-asciidoctor posts, but the list was barely usable
> without your change, so I think it's still an improvement.
>

I improved the extraction routine for the older posts. It extracts the very
first paragraph when it can.


> +1 to merge, thanks for working on this!
>
> One improvement we could work on is to add an ellipsis when the summary is
> too long, to handle those few posts where there isn't any title. Say we
> would only keep the first 500 characters, something like that, and add
> "(...)" at the end if we had to truncate the summary.
> We may be able to hack something in CSS (I'm not sure, but maybe), but in
> this case I'd rather try to something in Ruby, if possible. Do you think it
> would be possible?
>


My position on this is that we should take it into account when writing our
blog posts.

But from now on, if the preamble is longer than 5 paragraphs, I now extract
the first 3. It fixes the issue with Gunnar's post on the front page.

-- 
Guillaume