Option to change the max. character limit for Mastodon

[joenepraat]

I sometimes noticed that a quoted retweet was split in two toots. This is not needed on my server, cause we have a character limit of 1111.

So I was wondering if it's an idea to:

• Let a user set manually their character limit?

and/or ...

• automatically detect the servers character limit (like e.g. Tusky does).

[joenepraat]

Any update on this?

[shirishag75]

@renatolond looking forward to see what progress is being made on this. If we could have 1000 characters on mastadon vanilla it would make life much easier.

[renatolond]

@jeroenpraat not much, I'm afraid :( Outside of updating dependencies I haven't worked a lot on the crossposter lately. I have a branch aging here where I started the work, but didn't advance much. Sorry!

[renatolond]

@shirishag75 This is just the crossposter, so we cannot increase the limit of chars in the vanilla mastodon. This will only support instances where the character limit is bigger than the standard 500 so that tweets and RTs are not split.