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The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android
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Increase character limit for alt text #4998

Open mackuba opened 2 months ago

mackuba commented 2 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The max length for the alt text is set to 1000 right now at the UI level. This is often too little. It's more than enough when just describing what is in a photo etc., but very often the image is a screenshot of a post elsewhere, fragment of an article etc., and in such cases, people normally copy-paste the whole text from the original source, but many times I had to truncate some final part of the text I was copying.

I've even noticed that sometimes people add a second empty image only to be able to fit the complete alt text somewhere!

Some examples of that from the last few days, just search for "alt continued":

https://bsky.app/profile/ectscotland.bsky.social/post/3l2mcldnmrn2d https://bsky.app/profile/whinterqueen.bsky.social/post/3l2ix4c4mgn2r https://bsky.app/profile/ugobananas.bsky.social/post/3l2fx2y3h462f https://bsky.app/profile/nambroth.bsky.social/post/3l2aqiulw732o https://bsky.app/profile/barrydeutsch.bsky.social/post/3l2anazfqxv2g https://bsky.app/profile/floregonian.com/post/3l23yqd3c232n

Some of my posts where the alt didn't fit:

https://bsky.app/profile/mackuba.eu/post/3l2nfkqyqwk2z https://bsky.app/profile/mackuba.eu/post/3kyvm2vraq62s https://bsky.app/profile/mackuba.eu/post/3kyenbo4zyw2d

Describe the solution you'd like

Increase the max limit for alt text. How much? Not sure 🙃 Enough that the text on such screenshots as in the examples above can all fit there.

mary-ext commented 2 months ago

There's a now-reverted pull request that set the alt text limit from none at all to 5k grapehmes in the lexicon, 5k seems more than enough.

mary-ext commented 1 month ago

Adding on to this, it would be really nice if the button to save the alt text just gets disabled rather than force trimming the alt text to be below the specified char limit.

jcx616 commented 1 month ago

This is a great idea. Hopefully, this can be implemented in the future,

surfdude29 commented 3 weeks ago

The alt text limit has been increased to 2,000 characters now that #5611 has been merged.

I checked each of the images in the posts @mackuba linked above and 2,000 characters would easily be enough for all of them 👌