...and this is done! Your Mastodon clients should pick up the new Social.coop character limit of 1000; this might require a reload, and you might see 500 momentarily when you start composing a post prior to it updating to 1000, but it is our understanding that this should work for everyone no matter the client you use from this moment on.
This fulfills the community intention originally expressed in the 2024 Loomio vote: https://www.loomio.com/d/C4HKmTOa/proposal-to-revisit-extending-the-character-limit-for-posts/.
This took some time due to competing priorities and us wanting to test the solution thoroughly before trying it in our production instance. Thank you for your patience!
Nit: on Android, the "official" Mastodon app still shows a 500 limit. Tusky works as expected though.
I wonder if we could patch something further to get these apps to work or it's a limitation of the current approach (maybe some apps even hardcode this?)
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Yeah, I was checking on my other account @homegrown and got several people giving advice 👍
Thank you for the hard work of the team. I appreciate that time was set apart to fully test it before getting it out.
See https://wiki.social.coop and reach out to the TWG or CWG for more!