Improved splitting of overly long posts #665
Description
Hey there,
currently, if you write a post that exceeds your instance's character limit, Sengi splits it into a thread (multiple consecutive posts) instead of rejecting it. This is a convenient and useful feature.
However, this splits the post at the last possible word boundary, which often comes out awkwardly. Sometimes you'd like to use more pleasing splits than in the middle of a sentence.
Some improved post splitting features you could consider, ordered from what I assume would be the difficulty of implementing them:
- Prefer splitting at paragraph boundaries instead of word boundaries if possible.
- Automatically detect common splitting formats in the post text; e. g. when there's a set of
(1/3),(2/3)and(3/3)in the editor and split accordingly; or the ability to define splits by using Sengi-specific escape sequences. - The ability to define manual splitting points while composing a post using some kind of graphical cursor.
Additionally, it'd probably be pretty useful to have an indicator where Sengi would split the post while still in the editor.