Expand new posts in topics in "Unread" and "New" to full summary

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In a feature request discussion titled ‘Expand new posts in topics in “Unread” and “New” to full summary,’ nibixi proposes displaying full summaries of new posts directly on the “Unread” and “New” topic lists to speed up content scanning without needing to open each thread individually. They acknowledge the potential database cost and suggest mitigating it via pagination or batch loading for threads with more than 10 new items. nibixi references related prior discussions seeking faster post previews, including Scan lots of posts with a first-line snippet, Stream of all latest replies — would it be useful?, and Moderator tool: new posts/topics feed. In response, pfaffman suggests installing the Topic List Previews theme component as a possible solution. Lilly adds that the Topic List Excerpts plugin is another relevant option. The thread reflects community interest in enhancing browsing efficiency for unread and new content, with existing plugins offering partial solutions.

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I graze the “Unread” page in a forum every few days for threads I subscribe to and “New” firehose-style to see if I can contribute.

It would speed up the time necessary to expand / unpack the new entries in a thread that I haven’t read yet in the full page instead of opening each thread each.

I’m aware this is more costly on the database to denormalize from the list of threads with new items to their full contents. To alleviate this you could paginate the expansion as in the current scroll behaviour and do it in batches if there are more than 10 items.

I searched the discourse forum with “full text”, “full post” and “expand” to get similar feature requests that want speedier read-time:

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Maybe you want them to install Topic List Previews (TLP)

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In addition to Jay’s excellent recommendation, there is also Topic List Excerpts.

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