Hi, I just lost a comment entry that was over 600 characters long when I attempted to save it.
Granted, I did not pay attention to the visible character limit. Still, perhaps SO could display a message instead of losing my entry ?
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I agree that this is a bug. But then: 600 characters just for a comment? The world now learns to communicate with 140 char messages (Jeff's beloved twitter, short messages), so this seems so 90ties ;-)– malachAug 10, 2009 at 14:19
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1@Ralph: have you seen Jeff's beloved twitter feed? That's not communication, it's a sig file!– Shog9Aug 10, 2009 at 14:30
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I think the best solution would be to just have the text field stop accepting input at 600 characters.
answered Aug 10, 2009 at 13:03
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2They tried this once. It was very annoying. The bug here is that the Add Comment button still submits after warning you that you're over the limit...– Shog9Aug 10, 2009 at 14:14
This has been fixed and will be in the next build.
I'll refactor that a bit later to follow the same convention that minimum length checks use: disable the submit button if validation isn't met.
answered Aug 11, 2009 at 3:47
It does display a message. Unfortunately, it also reloads the page, losing anything you've written. Note that comment submission normally happens via an AJAX request and does not reload the whole page.
That's a bug.
Like Thomas said, the system should probably just have that hard limit set. But also, users need to pay attention when the red text starts counting down.
