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Re:Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform by BeetleB on Friday August 07, 2026 @05:24PM (#49216396)
The character limit is, in my opinion, the primary reason Twitter became so bad. It encourages absolute language (qualifiers take up characters!) It discourages any level of nuance.

I use Mastodon which has a 500 limit, and even that sometimes is not enough.

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Re:Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform by rowbin on Friday August 07, 2026 @08:00PM (#49217615)
What do you mean with "became bad"? It started out with a 140 characters limit in 2006 and kept that for more than 10 years. So its the other way around: it became worse, when the character limit increased. Though I don't think its due to the character limit either way.
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Re:Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform by BeetleB on Friday August 07, 2026 @09:00PM (#49217926)
It was bad long before they increased the character limit.

Saying shitty/toxic stuff can be done concisely. Giving a nuanced response is simply not possible. So people respond with jokes/sarcasm/counter toxic stuff. And the cycle continues.

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Re:Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform by 8by3 on Saturday August 08, 2026 @12:47AM (#49218972)
The opposite of short exists.

https://tuhat.net/about

Also open source.

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Re:Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform by davidcollantes on Monday August 10, 2026 @05:29PM (#49250009)
Do you know where is their repository?
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Re:Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform by jaffa2 on Saturday August 08, 2026 @06:03AM (#49220330)
Why use any? Why force yourself to comply with the arbitrary limitations imposed by some third party somehwere. For what?
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Re:Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform by F7F7F7 on Saturday August 08, 2026 @05:36PM (#49226124)
Because otherwise you're having online discourse with yourself.
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