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Originally posted by Patchou
1100 characters is already a lot for a message... in what occasion would you want to send more?
Hah! Typical male response. Chicks can find plenty of reasons to be so verbose *grins*
Pretty much all of my friends enjoy writing as a hobby, as do tons of others in the "creative young adult" type demographic (think Livejournal and DeviantArt kinda people). Predictably, the text limit makes sharing stories frustrating. You're copying chunks from Word or whatever several paragraphs at a time, and it's impossible to judge where your writing is going to get cropped mid-sentance. It turns a would-be simple ctrl+c, ctrl+p affair into an editorial process. DX
Also, as already mentioned, sending bits of articles and code. In my own experience, both of these things have been frustrated by the text limit before.
In essence, I really do think that the legitimate reasons one might be sharing large chunks of text FAR outweigh instances of flooding. Every single one of my contacts has been been stymied at some point or another by the text limit while talking with me. Conversely, I've never had a problem with flooding -- and if I did? the block button is right there.
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well, the problem is that if you want to send a lot of text, even if the message gets split-up, you'll get "Contact says:" in the middle several times which would be annoying.
Here is an idea: what would you think if Plus! simply detected you're trying to past more than the maximum amount of characters allowed and automatically send it as a text file to your contact?
Hate to be a killjoy, but that sounds way more obtuse than just "Contact says" D: Especially because the eye just glazes over those tags during a convo.
Of course, more functions are always nice, and I'm sure it would have its uses in some circumstances. But if such a function was integrated, I hope it would be possible to turn it off. Sorry to be flippant, but... generally, when I'm sending text via Msg window, it's because I just wanna send it via Msg window =P There are half a dozen OTHER ways I could do it and not have to worry about the text limit at all, but I choose to do it through a WLM wnd because that's how I want to do it.
HOWEVER...
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this could be used as some kind of enhanced-paste feature and be extended for example to paste pictures, html pages, etc... ?
I would LOVE if when you CTRL+V'd (or even drag-dropped) an image into a window, it put it into shared folders instead of inititiaizing the old fashioned style image transfer. You should probably make that turn-offable in the options, though, as I'm sure many people prefer the simplicity of the old way -- not to mention sharing folders sometimes goes offline for long periods of time.
Anyway, sorry for the lengthy post *cough* Hope I made my point here.
I'll just finish by saying that the text limit is by far my #1 frustration with WLM, and I'd be overjoyed to see it gone.
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