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by Someone1234 4219 days ago
I'm not them.

But maybe because when you paste a value longer than the max it just chops off the end. That sounds good until you consider that the ultimate goal is to have people re-structure their titles to fit the constraints as best they can rather than just providing a "preview" of the content (e.g. first line of the content).

For example I may paste in:

> LambdaLite: A functional, relational Lisp database written in 250 lines of Common Lisp

That's 87 characters. It would get mangled to this:

> LambdaLite: A functional, relational Lisp database written in 250 lines of Comm

So now the person entering the title has to paste it into notepad, fix it, and then paste it into HK within the length requirements. That doesn't help anyone.

Instead just accept an infinite length, and provide feedback on it allowing people to alter the title to perfection until the error goes away, no mangling or deleting title contents.