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   Justin Macleod (justinmac84@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 08:18:57 JST Justin Macleod

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   • James Scholes

   @jscholes Didn't know that

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     James Scholes (jscholes@dragonscave.space)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 08:18:57 JST James Scholes

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     @JustinMac84 Any link starting with "http://" or "https://" will be treated as contributing 23 characters to your post, even if it takes up more or less space than that in reality. So Mastodon is a friendly place to post full, unshortened URLs... which apps then truncate so I can't read them.

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     James Scholes (jscholes@dragonscave.space)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 08:18:58 JST James Scholes

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     @JustinMac84 Mastodon already treats all URLs as being the same fixed length, regardless of how many characters they actually are. And I'm talking about apps displaying URLs, not people posting them.

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     Justin Macleod (justinmac84@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 08:18:59 JST Justin Macleod

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     • James Scholes

     @jscholes When you're working with a character limit, it makes sense.

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     James Scholes (jscholes@dragonscave.space)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 08:19:00 JST James Scholes

     I like: URLs with slugs in that give me a clue to the title/theme of the content before I click.

     I dislike: #Mastodon apps truncating URLs for display.