Limit message length

[redrumrobot]

Currently Babble will allow posts of unlimited size (as far as I can tell) to be posted, Babble totally ignores discourse's max post length setting (default of 32,000 characters), which is still way too much for a shoutbox. A separate setting to limit this - to a much lower value (something like twitter's 140 chars or so.. maybe 200 would be practical), is needed.

[hugoroger]

Also disable image sharing on the chat box

[gdpelican]

Sorry, could you expand on that a bit? We do allow markdown images to be posted into chat, which I think is desireable?

[hugoroger]

I just had signed up on the test instance linked to the plugin to check the chat and I could see extremely oversize images being sent in the chat. That could be very heavy on the site or lag the chat a lot depending on the number of people on it. Maybe allow admins to lock the chat per navigated session or allow the chat per to have individual instances per topic/category? Just an idea.

[redrumrobot]

These are 2 separate issues (but also I agree with @hugoroger... ) I need a way to limit the maxiumum character count allowed in a text/chat, he needs a way to limit file size.