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Change bios' characters limit to 500 by default #42

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Sylvhem opened this issue Feb 23, 2019 · 3 comments
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Change bios' characters limit to 500 by default #42

Sylvhem opened this issue Feb 23, 2019 · 3 comments
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@Sylvhem
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Sylvhem commented Feb 23, 2019

One of the main selling points of Mastodon always have been its 500 characters limit. Despite that, the number of characters one can use in their biography is only of 340, which is both short and a strange choice.
I would suggest to change the default limit of the number of characters that can be used in bios to 500.

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I did a similar change in mastodonte, and I was thinking that we could follow the change on #32 to make it configurable by the interface and all that.
As far as I know (I looked over different app issues at the time) there's no equivalent config key to inform that an instance supports a different bio size as it's the case with toots. The apps try with a bigger size and show the error message if given.

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I think that making the bio size equivalent to the post size makes sense, although I don't see any harm in allowing them to be configured separately. Changing to 500 by default makes sense though!

This is a small addition to #20.

@clarfonthey clarfonthey added A-accessibility (Affects) accessibility K-task (Kind) is a specific task that has been planned out K-good-first-issue (Kind) is a good task for people who haven't contributed before labels Feb 27, 2019
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trwnh commented May 21, 2019

btw this has been fixed in upstream :) mastodon/mastodon#10790

could still be configurable a la #20 but at least the default isn't absurdly low anymore!

@clarfonthey clarfonthey modified the milestones: v0.0.x.x (before Pre-Release 1), v0.1.0 (Pre-Release 1.0) May 25, 2019
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