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Feditips

Simple tip for users on instances with small character limits

Find a new one

Don't put up with that shit

Nobody wants to read a 50 post long thread that only exists because you couldn't fit it into one post cause your admins are dumbasses who are stuck in the past

#feditips

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Enalys :enalys:

@feditips
Also, want to do long paragraphs to explain stuff? We have blogs for that.

Louis Ingenthron

@feditips It's not the admins that are stuck in the past. It's Eugen. We have to edit the code and recompile to increase the character limit, which is crazy. If it were just a simple config setting, nearly everyone would have it increased.

The Sleight Doctor 🃏

@feditips Controversial opinion, but I've grown to prefer the austere 500-character limit. Collapsing my ideas down into tiny, bitesize chunks (each shareable on their own) helps me to clarify my own thinking, and also stops me ranting into the wilderness before I've taken the time to consider sparser, more disciplined and impactful sentences.

Because some folks hate epic threads, I always aim for a maximum of four installments. So far, my longest has been five.

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