mastodon-character-increase/character-limit-patch.patch/0001-increase-character-limit-from-500-to-5000.patch

From 3bfddc5327166954b1dfb0f3587612246fc81477 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Falko Zurell <falko.zurell@here.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 19:09:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] increase character limit to 5000

---
 .../mastodon/features/compose/components/compose_form.js      | 4 ++--
 app/validators/status_length_validator.rb                     | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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
 
-- 
2.39.2 (Apple Git-143)