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Automatically split and submit long toots #212

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dredmorbius opened this issue Jul 18, 2019 · 0 comments

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dredmorbius commented Jul 18, 2019

Splitting long toots at <= 500 characters (or other server / user-specified length), and submitting these, with numbering added, would be useful.

I've ginned up some crappy gawk that does the splits, though not submission:

https://pastebin.com/v3FXKxC3

Issues:

Max sizes vary by server. 500 is a reasonable default.
Unicode / multibyte characters.
In replies, references to parent / other thread participants eats into character count.
Widow/orphan protection would be useful.
Mastodon isn't a long-form medium, even if some ~~people~~ space alien cats abuse it that way.

craigmaloney added the enhancement label

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