---
title: "fix feed descriptions"
description: "Today I fixed a bug in markata that has been occurring for a few months where the description for posts come out as None if coming from cache, the issue was..."
date: 2025-05-05
published: true
tags:
  - markata
  - python
template: blog-post
---


Today I fixed a bug in markata that has been occurring for a few months where
the description for posts come out as None if coming from cache, the issue was
a pretty simple check and pull properly from cache.  This fixes all the
descriptions in feeds and metadata on the post.

## Better description

While in there we went ahead and improved our get_description to more
accurately return plain text without escaped characters, remove cutoff words,
and add an elipsis if the description cuts off the text.


## More description

While I was there I made longer form posts, `til, blog-post` use the super
description of 500 characters instead of the regular 120 character description.


## Before

![image](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/8e9cf8e3-50ab-4e0a-be76-7241fbfe44c5.webp)

## After
![image](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/29f96255-a89f-4ec6-b9e7-f61551366264.webp)