nightpool
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6 years ago special casing character limits while not handling other types of custom validation has never sat right with me, which is why I disagreed with this proposal from the beginning. iirc we have our own forked version of pinafore that had a correct character limit, so this issue is moot
On Sun, Aug 26, 2018, 1:36 PM Nolan Lawson notifications@github.com wrote:
Apparently this is a de-facto standard that the glitch-social fork and Pleroma uses to indicate when the maximum number of characters is >500, for the benefit of third-party clients: nolanlawson/pinafore#280 (comment) https://github.com/nolanlawson/pinafore/issues/280#issuecomment-388185185
- I searched or browsed the repo’s other issues to ensure this is not a duplicate.
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Apparently this is a de-facto standard that the glitch-social fork and Pleroma uses to indicate when the maximum number of characters is >500, for the benefit of third-party clients: https://github.com/nolanlawson/pinafore/issues/280#issuecomment-388185185