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140 character limit
I think if my message turns out to be > 140 characters for identi.ca or twitter.com, the message should not go out or ping.fm should ask if the message should be chopped up into multiple messages. Due to URL rewriting it is not completely easy to know when you've gone over the limit.
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Inappropriate?The character counter is just an arbitrary display of an assumed message length. It's more of a generic radar to give you SOME idea on your message's length. Since so many of our services don't require less than 140 characters, or in some cases, no limit at all, there is no real measurement that can put in place that gives an accurate display of website limitations. I've considered making the counter site-specific, but that would just be a user interface mess.
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Inappropriate?Good reply but not really new information. I apologize for not being more clear, but I think that ping.fm should ask the user what to do AFTER the user clicks send/post and the altered message is too large when directed to a service that has limitations. Of course there could be defaults because most users would want messages to be chopped up into multiple messages, but there is always the chance that users would want to shorten the messages.
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