@description is limited to 500 characters

[jesus2099]

Hello, today I was unable to import a script :

The following scripts could not be imported: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jesus2099/konami-command/master/mb_SUPER-MIND-CONTROL-II-X-TURBO.user.js - Description is too long (maximum is 500 characters).

I know my description is awfully long but at the same time, I would not really want to shorten it, rather the opposite with time…

[JasonBarnabe]

I suggest you shorten your description. You can include everything else you want to say in your additional info.

Description needs to be relatively short so that we can sensibly show it all in a script list. This is one of the longest ones on the site, and it's kind of pushing it already...

[jesus2099]

Woops, seems that my comment was not posted :

• I love the fact that everything can be self-contained and that all github (or whatever host) front-end for user scripts can be up to date without me doing manual edit on each script page (if the description has to be changed) and risk obsolete info.
• I did not find in greasemonkey specs any kind of character limitation for the metadata (I don’t know how official this is, though : Metadata block)
• The script that has more than 500 characters in description is agglomerating many features from older small scripts (and is my most downloaded one) thus I can’t really cut any of the small features off the description. And I would even add some more in the future…

My suggestion would be like :

A VARCHAR kind of column (instead of CHAR(500)) could come handy, imo.

If the description is too large, an overflow:hidden block tag could be used so that interested users could click a read more kind of link.

But still it’s only a suggestion… :)

[JasonBarnabe]

What if I made the site truncate descriptions larger than 500 chars rather than error? That way, the script can still be imported, I'm satisfied with the length of data, and when users install they can see the full description?

[jesus2099]

Oh yes, truncate and issue a warning, why not ! I’ve also thought of : Truncate description to 499, append an ellipsis character and put the remaining text in the body of the script page. Do you like it ? :)

[jixunmoe]

I think ellipsis took 2 char space..? On 24 Jun 2014 11:37, "PATATE12" notifications@github.com wrote:

Oh yes, truncate and issue a warning, why not ! I’ve also thought of : Truncate description to 499, append an ellipsis character and put the remaining text in the body of the script page. Do you like it ? :)

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[jesus2099]

It’s U+2026. I don’t know if the 500 limit is in terms of characters or bytes anyway. :)…

[JasonBarnabe]

The 500 character limit on description is still a hard validation fail when manually creating or updating a script. When syncing, the description will be truncated at 500 characters for displaying on Greasy Fork, but will retain the full description in the code.

Let me know if it works for you now.

[jesus2099]

Thanks ! : ;)