@ketonic:All good! Feel free to talk about the issue as much as you want, that's what this forum is for :) We definitely want to make the experience as good for everyone as possible. Trying to figure out an approach for this.
@ripelivejam: It's very unlikely (in fact, it definitely) not possible that we'll have an option for display delay. It will either be changed for everyone or not at all.
@brettchalupa: The description tag is not itunes specific, and is documented on http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html. It gets used if itunes:summary is not present. So I don't see a reason that we can't un-truncate the results from summary
In the past we did not do truncating on the descriptions at all, but we ran into issues with some podcast readers, or something. I'm reaching out to the developer who added it to find out the reason.
I certainly don't want to limit the feed if we don't have to.
It is indeed truncating the description, at the nearest word. Itunes has a limit of 255 characters per field (http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html).
@believer258: I also didn't understand the issue at first. I think the issue OP is describing is not a bug, but he's just mousing over the menu - and then moving the mouse down to where the play button is. Instead of mousing off the menu, he's just clicking on the opened menu. It's not so much a bug, as it is a usability thing.
I can experiment with some changes, but I don't want to add a delay or anything.
@ketonic: Event targeting with menus has been an issue on some mobile devices, but shouldn't be affecting desktop use.
What device/browser?
*Edit* On second thought, I think I understand what you are saying now. If I'm understanding you correctly it's not really a bug, and more of an issue about how fast we want the menu to display. On one hand, from a navigation perspective, having the menu pop up quickly is nice, but if you are quickly mousing over to get to the "video play" button, you'll accidentally click a menu item, instead of mousing away to remove the menu. The only fix would for us to put a delay on the hover for the show menu. That way, if you mouse quickly, say 0.2 seconds, we don't show menu.
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