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Comment by dietr1ch

4 days ago

As an implementer of a scalable notification system I'd be sure to cap the notification size.

- Keeps messages O(1) so I can focus on scaling in the amount of notifications

- Tells whoever runs into this that,

    - I didn't planned for arbitrarily large messages as they *might* otherwise grind performance to a halt.
    - They *might* be misusing my notification system

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