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Posting more than 140 chars works

#53

You are able to post more than 140 chars in one message. This will be incompatible with other services like twitter if you forward your messages.

Reported by Johannes Schirge · May 12th, 2009 @ 12:56 PM

State: resolved
Milestone: 0.6

Activity

  1. Scot
    Scot

    This is a P2 theme issue, correct?

    May 13th, 2009 @ 06:45 AM

  2. Johannes Schirge
    Johannes Schirge

    If this error does not occur in prologue-theme, it is a P2 theme issue. ;)

    May 13th, 2009 @ 06:56 AM

  3. Johannes Schirge
  4. Johannes Schirge
    Johannes Schirge

    I tested posting more than 140 chars on openmicroblogger.org with prologue-theme and its possible to post more thank 140 chars there, too. In both themes 'maxlength' is used in 'textarea'-field.

    May 17th, 2009 @ 11:45 PM

  5. Johannes Schirge
    Johannes Schirge

    I tested posting more than 140 chars on openmicroblogger.org with prologue-theme and its possible to post more thank 140 chars there, too. In both themes 'maxlength' is used in 'textarea'-field.

    May 17th, 2009 @ 11:45 PM

  6. Brian Jesse Hendrickson
    Brian Jesse Hendrickson
    • State changed from new to open

    I guess maxlength only works for <input and not <textarea? I didn't look at the link you sent me yet

    May 17th, 2009 @ 11:56 PM

  7. Brian Jesse Hendrickson
    Brian Jesse Hendrickson

    I can create a server-side validate function, a function called validate_tablename_fieldname can test the posted data

    for example in identities.php there is validate_identities_photo and validate_identities_url

    May 18th, 2009 @ 12:04 AM

  8. Brian Jesse Hendrickson
    Brian Jesse Hendrickson

    ok i'm going to try to pull from github/Shen now

    May 18th, 2009 @ 12:04 AM

  9. Johannes Schirge
    Johannes Schirge

    Yes, a server-side validate function sounds good. That should fix this problem. Maybe it is possible to add a java-script based add on which disables the send-button if there are more than 140chars.

    Interesting: If you disable java-script on twitter you are able to post more than 140 chars but on mainpage the posts are cuttet at 140 and by clicking on the post you can read the full message.

    May 18th, 2009 @ 09:17 AM

  10. Brian Jesse Hendrickson
    Brian Jesse Hendrickson

    identi.ca/evan mentioned once that the omb protocol supported unlimited size messages, maybe omb could have an admin feature to choose the maximum tweet size from 1 up to unlimited, and the javascript counter maximum would show accordingly

    May 22nd, 2009 @ 12:40 AM

  11. Johannes Schirge
    Johannes Schirge
    • Tag changed from 140chars to medium-priority

    Yes, but keeping Twitter-compatibility is also an important fact. But the option to let the admin choose is good.

    June 28th, 2009 @ 06:21 AM

  12. Johannes Schirge
    Johannes Schirge
    • State changed from open to resolved

    July 25th, 2009 @ 12:42 PM

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