⚠️ Since Micro.blog counts link URL characters are part of the character limit (and I’m not aware of any effort to change that) I wish the native clients offered a url shortener when needed (I currently use is.gd). cc/ @gluon

@zorn I wish that photos and links did not count. cc @manton

@cdevroe @zorn URLs don't usually count. What counts is what you see on screen. If you link some text, that text counts, but the full URL that it's pointing to does not. (There's a bug with the web editor, though, that counts everything incorrectly.)

@manton @cdevroe @maique This is the behavior I run into:

www.dropbox.com/s/bdpqp5s...

@maique @zorn Yep, that's it. Micro.blog automatically Markdown-ifies the link to "shorten" it but it doesn't do that until it has been posted. We should update the app to account for this. Thanks!

@manton Thanks for the clarification.