[gotthemwmds]

This was definitely the first thing that came up, as you found.

To be honest, I just don't remember. There was something about something that made something scary to the PM who was in charge of it all? That is about the best I can come up with.

I want to say the needed to index more than 191 chars, but that seems like a stupid thing to say. Who needs to index that many chars?

If I remember, I'll edit :)

edit: I guess I should say I was consulted to do some unrelated things, then helped them with some MySQL stuff that came up towards the end of the contract, then the utf8mb4 stuff came up, and I spent some time going through it with them. It was not the main focus of the contract, which is part of why I don't remember it very well. Just something that came up in the day to day...