Arun Shah™@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoMastodon featureslemmy.worldimagemessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up116arrow-down1imageMastodon featureslemmy.worldArun Shah™@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square13linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoCool, let me know when they remove character limits and figure out how to apply language filters to hashtags.
minus-squareEndymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoCharacter limits are a feature, not a bug. I liked the limit of 160 characters (with tags) on Twitter. It’s because of SMS, but called for brevity and clarity.
minus-squareSorteKanin@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoIsn’t character limits an instance setting?
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoYou can modify the code but there’s no “setting” in vanilla Mastodon. The request has been denied by Mr. Rochko himself, despite protests from the greater community.
minus-squareemaechlerAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoyou can modify the limit settings in the /validators/status_length_validator.rb file and reboot mastodon :) i did that and now i have 1000 char limit
Cool, let me know when they remove character limits and figure out how to apply language filters to hashtags.
Character limits are a feature, not a bug. I liked the limit of 160 characters (with tags) on Twitter. It’s because of SMS, but called for brevity and clarity.
Isn’t character limits an instance setting?
You can modify the code but there’s no “setting” in vanilla Mastodon. The request has been denied by Mr. Rochko himself, despite protests from the greater community.
you can modify the limit settings in the /validators/status_length_validator.rb file and reboot mastodon :) i did that and now i have 1000 char limit
Yes, that is what I said.