# Ability to custom define topic "preview text"

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-custom-define-topic-preview-text/107455
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [1월 24, 2019, 8:20오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-custom-define-topic-preview-text/107455 "2019-01-24T20:20:51Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1월 25, 2019, 5:19오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-custom-define-topic-preview-text/107455/9 "2019-01-25T05:19:33Z")

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Technically @sam built a version of this as an experiment a while back (where you could explicitly mark begin and end excerpts in the first post) but I am not sure it survived into current versions of Discourse.

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