Since you investigated and found a workaround maybe it would be worth submitting an issue to the Lemmy GitHub repo.
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maf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think I’ve found the issue. So I’ve found out that Lemmy has a 200 character limit for titles. My post had 198 characters:
I’ve just released Gatekeeper 1.6.0. It’s a single executable that turns any Linux machine into a home gateway. Now with realtime traffic graphs, LAN autoconfiguration, full cone NAT & better looks.
Removing the word “just” at the beginning brought the total character count to “193”:
I’ve released Gatekeeper 1.6.0. It’s a single executable that turns any Linux machine into a home gateway. Now with realtime traffic graphs, LAN autoconfiguration, full cone NAT & better looks.
And the post got created successfully :)
I think something might have prevented lemmy.world from accepting the 198-character title but worked with 193-character one. This doesn’t happen on my home instance, running lemmy 0.18.1 but happens on @lemmy.world, running 0.18.5.
Vorticity@lemmy.world 8 months ago
maf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
SGTM
Submitted as github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4080
quinten@lemmy.world 8 months ago
<3
TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I think titles would be more on to the point than being about 200 chars long.
maf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ah, I’ve found the issue. The ampersand character (
&) in the title was escaped to HTML entity (&), which bumped the title length above the limit. I noticed this after posting the shorter title & trying to change it back.