Closed Bug 870441 Opened 11 years ago Closed 10 years ago

description field has no limit

Categories

(Input Graveyard :: Submission, defect)

Product:
Input Graveyard
Component:
Submission
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 929664

People

(Reporter: willkg, Unassigned)

Details

There's currently no limit on the description field.

1. Cheng's test document suggests there should be a limit at "excessively long".

   Should we limit the description?

   What should the limit be? What should we do if the user's feedback description
   exceeds the limit?

2. Right now if a user enters in long text, it shows up in the dashboard in its entirety.

   Should we truncate at 1000 characters and have a "..." or something like that which
   links to the rest of the description?
Drawing from my conversations with Cheng in the past, I would think that we should not stop the user from entering text, but maybe truncate it in the database to something large (like 64K) to protect Input from malice.

Regarding truncating long feedback in the dashboard: +1. Having giant blocks of text doesn't really help anyone, as long as the full content is available somewhere.

My $0.02.
This got handled in bug #929664, so I'm duping it to that.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Input → Input Graveyard
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