# Github boxes should be truncated
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-boxes-should-be-truncated/22396
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 21, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-boxes-should-be-truncated/22396 "2014-11-21T16:19:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@rumpelsepp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rumpelsepp)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-boxes-should-be-truncated/22396/1 "2014-11-21T16:19:00Z")
I think the text in the github boxes should be truncated. It does not look beautiful when linking to a commit with a long description, see this example:
[https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/45eaf45dfa4850df16bc2e8e7903d89021137f40](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/45eaf45dfa4850df16bc2e8e7903d89021137f40)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-boxes-should-be-truncated/22396/2 "2014-11-24T00:08:33Z")
Sure, PR to onebox welcome [GitHub - discourse/onebox: (DEPRECATED) A gem for turning URLs into website previews · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/onebox)
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-boxes-should-be-truncated/22396/3 "2014-11-24T00:32:23Z")
> [@rumpelsepp](#):
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> I think the text in the github boxes should be truncated. It does not look beautiful when linking to a commit with a long description, see this example:
Here’s a better idea: Only the first line of the commit should be in the big size and blue, the later lines should be non-bold and normal, and have proper linebreaks in them.
Would be more difficult to do, though.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2014, 12:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-boxes-should-be-truncated/22396/4 "2014-11-24T00:33:24Z")
We needs less imagineering here and more shipping 🙂
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-boxes-should-be-truncated/22396/5 "2014-11-24T00:34:07Z")
Yep, it’s entirely possible that what I described would be butt-ugly…
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### Author:  [@rumpelsepp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rumpelsepp)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-boxes-should-be-truncated/22396/6 "2014-11-24T23:02:56Z")
I am not that Ruby pro, but I will have a look at this. Maybe I am able to fix it. 😊
Try this one [[github\_commit] Extract the first line of a commit as the title by rumpelsepp · Pull Request #257 · discourse/onebox · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/onebox/pull/257)
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### Author:  [@rumpelsepp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rumpelsepp)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2015, 9:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-boxes-should-be-truncated/22396/7 "2015-01-27T09:42:24Z")
[https://github.com/discourse/onebox/pull/257](https://github.com/discourse/onebox/pull/257)
merged, could be closed, @codinghorror
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2015, 9:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-boxes-should-be-truncated/22396/8 "2015-01-27T09:46:42Z")