Hey all. One pet peeve of mine is people who post very long URLs in
comments, which often increases the width of the page.

Not knowing a better way to address this, I added the following to the
function _auto_linkify_urls in Utility.pm:

# Truncate long URLs at 70 characters
s#>((?:http|ftp|file)://.{70}).+</a>#>$1...</a>#g;

1) does anyone see a problem with this?

2) why does it seem to apply to new comments and not existing comments? Are
they being cached/archived?

Chris

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