Am i the only person that likes the tldr bot?

Ok, if an article is 500 words long and the bot shortens it to 80 is still reasonable to call it TL:DR, however if there is a 1000+ word article we have two options:

Shorten it to 2-300 words and still give us most of the important details, or give us a two sentence summary, which is the true TL:DR for me, but most headlines also do the same job.

Personally option 1 is much better and I don't care how the bot is called. I'm okay with reading one phone screen worth of text instead of clicking the link and skimming through whatever side content and ads they have and reading 5-10 times as much.

Call it something else if you don't like the TL:DR bot name, or block it, but it's super useful IMO.

Here it does a great job of reducing a text of 174 words to 172 words. 👍

(I do not want to complain too much. Usually it works and it is short enough for me to quickly read it.)

We just need a TLDR bot for the TLDR bot

We need a better tldr bot and also a tsdfln (too short doesn't feel like a novel) bot.

This. I mentioned this a couple of times, IMO a Tl;DR shouldn't exceed 150 words, but the bot's author disagreed with me. It's not a TL;DR if it takes up half the screen.

The bot uses smmry.com to make its summaries, it would be easy to make a fork that lowered the amount of sentences in the summary, but it might lose some important details.

EDIT: oops, completely wrong bot, I was looking at another lemmy TL;DR bot on github

EDIT2: should still be quite simple to fork the current one, but I couldn't find where to reduce the number of sentences

He should at least put it in spoiler tags. So it doesnt block 2 pages full of text