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Increase Mastodon v4.1.0 max post character count to 5000
diff --git a/app/javascript/mastodon/features/compose/components/compose_form.js b/app/javascript/mastodon/features/compose/components/compose_form.js
index e641d59f4..9b6f84fa1 100644
--- a/app/javascript/mastodon/features/compose/components/compose_form.js
+++ b/app/javascript/mastodon/features/compose/components/compose_form.js
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ class ComposeForm extends ImmutablePureComponent {
const fulltext = this.getFulltextForCharacterCounting();
const isOnlyWhitespace = fulltext.length !== 0 && fulltext.trim().length === 0;
- return !(isSubmitting || isUploading || isChangingUpload || length(fulltext) > 500 || (isOnlyWhitespace && !anyMedia));
+ return !(isSubmitting || isUploading || isChangingUpload || length(fulltext) > 5000 || (isOnlyWhitespace && !anyMedia));
};
handleSubmit = (e) => {
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ class ComposeForm extends ImmutablePureComponent {
</div>
<div className='character-counter__wrapper'>
- <CharacterCounter max={500} text={this.getFulltextForCharacterCounting()} />
+ <CharacterCounter max={5000} text={this.getFulltextForCharacterCounting()} />
</div>
</div>
diff --git a/app/validators/status_length_validator.rb b/app/validators/status_length_validator.rb
index e107912b7..a3cbe5123 100644
--- a/app/validators/status_length_validator.rb
+++ b/app/validators/status_length_validator.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
# frozen_string_literal: true
class StatusLengthValidator < ActiveModel::Validator
- MAX_CHARS = 500
+ MAX_CHARS = 5000
URL_PLACEHOLDER_CHARS = 23
URL_PLACEHOLDER = 'x' * 23
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