Work around compatibility issues

css/content.css

@@ -465,11 +465,6 @@
     line-height: 1;
 }
 
-#app-content .feed-view .utils .title {
-    background: none !important;
-    padding-left: 10px;
-}
-
 #app-content .utils .title h1 a {
     /*text-overflow: ellipsis;*/
     white-space: nowrap;

lib/Db/Item.php

@@ -360,6 +360,10 @@ class Item extends Entity implements IAPI, \JsonSerializable
         return json_decode($this->getCategoriesJson());
     }
 
+    public function getWordCount(): int {
+        return self::countWords(strip_tags($this->getBody()));
+    }
+
     /**
      * Turns entity attributes into an array
      */
@@ -384,11 +388,12 @@ class Item extends Entity implements IAPI, \JsonSerializable
             'starred' => $this->isStarred(),
             'lastModified' => $this->getLastModified(),
             'rtl' => $this->getRtl(),
-            'intro' => $this->getIntro(),
+            'intro' => mb_substr($this->getIntro(), 0, 500),
             'fingerprint' => $this->getFingerprint(),
             'categories' => $this->getCategories(),
             'sharedBy' => $this->getSharedBy(),
-            'sharedByDisplayName' => $this->getSharedByDisplayName()
+            'sharedByDisplayName' => $this->getSharedByDisplayName(),
+            'wordCount' => $this->getWordCount(),
         ];
     }
 
@@ -755,4 +760,11 @@ class Item extends Entity implements IAPI, \JsonSerializable
             stripos($mime, 'image/') !== false ||
             stripos($mime, 'video/') !== false));
     }
+
+    private static function countWords(string $text): int
+    {
+        $text = preg_replace('/[\pP\pM]/u', '', $text); // strip punctuation (P) and combination marks (M)
+        $text = preg_replace('/[^\pL\pN]+/u', ' ', $text); // convert every sequence of non-letters (L) and non-numbers (N) to a space
+        return 1 + substr_count($text, ' ');
+    }
 }

templates/part.content.php

@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@
                                 {{ item.pubDate*1000 | relativeTimestamp }}
                         </time>
                     </li>
+                    <li class="only-in-compact">
+                      <span class="date">{{ item.wordCount }} words</span>
+                    </li>
                     <li ng-click="Content.toggleStar(item.id)"
                         class="util"
                         news-stop-propagation>