No fair: adding links towards post limits!

[ShelLuser]

Hi gang!

Just so we're clear: I'm not mad or anything (all good) but I am obviously "upset" with this major unjustice

More seriously: I don't like the 420 char limit, also because there's no way to tell if you reached it. But today I discovered that links also count towards this and I don't think that's fair.

Proof of concept right here:

So, what are we looking at? My latest profile post, well my comment thereof. Keyword: machdep.bootmethod. I learned something new today, and <= that was it. So I commented on that on my profile post (comment thereof) but I was greeted with the above error message. I fired up my trusty VS Code and lo and behold.. the actual size was well within the threshold.

Then I removed the actual link and wham.. posted (see previously shared link).

I don't think it's fair to include the contents of link targets towards the post amount.

And just so we're clear? => this is not an advocacy against those post limits, even though I'm one of the people why they probably exist. Those limits made me a better poster in general (I'm not kidding: this extends well beyond the realm of this forum); these limits help reflect, think and do things better (well.. at least more condensed, lol!).

But pls no link contents!

 

[Espionage724]

More seriously: I don't like the 420 char limit, also because there's no way to tell if you reached it.

I've typed novels before running into that; had to paste em into Notepad and try to shorten a few comments too

I like that it enforces a micro-blog style with the limit, something like Twitter's old 100-some limit; quick thoughts as the message, but in-depth discussions needed elsewhere. I like the idea of being a little vague to encourage research, so not posting direct links works with that

 

[SirDice]

Only profile messages have a 420 character limit, regular posts have a 25000 character limit.

 

[kent_dorfman766]

In business communications if you cannot say what you need in two of three sentences then you've already lost most of your audience. This is a tough pill for us tech geeks to swallow.

 

[kpedersen]

Only profile messages have a 420 character limit, regular posts have a 25000 character limit.

I swear some (albeit interesting) dialogues have surpassed this!

In business communications if you cannot say what you need in two of three sentences then you've already lost most of your audience. This is a tough pill for us tech geeks to swallow.

In business you aren't wrong, but in the tech world we have an attention span greater than a gold fish XD

I try to explain to my pet rabbits how RAII works and the out-of-band architecture required to benefit from it but they really aren't interested.