Excuse me, I've read in the local TL that there was a words limit on Bonfire now, but what are you trying to achieve exactly?

The Fediverse is confronted to all kinds of abuse and the only time post length has been a problem it's been fixed forever by the "show more" button. If you want to prevent the circular consumption of low-quality posts (which is something that I want too!) well… a meta discussion/feditips extension would feel more appropriate, for example as a sort of built-in, decentralized wiki that the microblogging composer would link to on first login

#bonfire_feedback

@Oceane it shouldn't be up to us (as software builders), but up to each instance to decide if they want to have a limit and what number that should be. Currently the default is 2000 words (not characters!) but we can make that higher... From a technical point of view it can be useful to have some kind of limit (just like there is for filesize when uploading images) just to avoid slowing down the site or over-using resources, whether by accident or maliciously.