Comment by dylan604

2 years ago

it would take all of about 3 seconds to realize why an unlimited character count would break the site's layout and know that it will never happen.

i do agree that the "don't editorialize" and strict char count are very contradictory, but suggesting that the site changes because of it is also naive at best.

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stavros  2 years ago

It took about 1 second to realize that "80 characters" and "unlimited" aren't the only two options.

  • toss1  2 years ago

    Exactly; thank you.

    I was definitely NOT thinking of unlimited.

    I was thinking of 80chars, but excluding numerals (123, etc) and number text ("thousand", "million" etc.) and maybe a few other items excluded from the count, with a maximum of 100, or whatever number actually will not break the layout.

    I've found it frustrating trying to fit in 80chars, and e.g., finding that ampersand gets expanded so it actually counts more than "and", so it is not a single-rule 80 chars; perhaps a few more sophisticated rules might help. Just a suggestion.

    • aqfamnzc  2 years ago

      Not that it really matters, but I found it interesting thinking of ways this could be broken...

          million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million

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