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Charcount of links in Microblogging #229

Open justelex opened 11 years ago

justelex commented 11 years ago

We should think about not counting link Chars or even set a fixed count i.e. 10 Chars per Link.
If you have got a Link like http://findeco.piraten-rlp.de/#/Satzung_RLP.1/Teil_III_Satzung.1/Organe_und_Gremien_d.1/Der_Landesvorstand_L.1/Absatz_15a.1 and eventually an Argument behind it, the charcount is really limited.

justelex commented 11 years ago

Right now I have seen that this is already communicated that way in our Help. Bug? or NYI?

Qwlouse commented 11 years ago

Actually there is no proper char counting right now. There is a small counter on the website, but it is not relevant. In fact you can submit arbitrary long microblog posts, even if the counter shows negative numbers.

Adding a limit to the backend and also having advanced charcounting would be easy. But to have the same functionality added to the frontend counter could be tricky.

justelex commented 11 years ago

To be honnest I think wee need it in Front and Backend. Otherwise it would be to confusing for users

Qwlouse commented 11 years ago

For making this work in the frontend, the problem is, that we would need to issue a request to the backend whenever we see something that looks like a link. Because we only treat it as such if the referenced node does exist. It would be nice to have this feature because we could then give some immediate feedback on whether a link is correct or not, but it involves quite some work.

justelex commented 11 years ago

If we would like to implement something like "Usernamesuggestion" we would need it anyways. If not we could easily count a link (No matter if valid or not) with XX Chars.