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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Sign up to join this communityHi, 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 ?
I think the best solution would be to just have the text field stop accepting input at 600 characters.
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.
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.