2k characters

[appellation]

I'm not sure how important this is, but attempting to send a message over 2000 characters rejects the promise with a Bad Request error from the Discord API. I remember this issue was addressed in #653, but it seems to have been reverted with the v10 update.

[iCrawl]

https://discord.js.org/#!/docs/tag/master/class/TextChannel?scrollto=sendMessage
https://discord.js.org/#!/docs/tag/master/class/TextChannel?scrollto=sendCode
https://discord.js.org/#!/docs/tag/master/typedef/MessageOptions
https://discord.js.org/#!/docs/tag/master/typedef/SplitOptions

.sendMessage() and .sendCode() both can be passed the option split with a variety of settings.
This was not reverted.

[appellation]

Although I'm curious what the situation would be in which you'd specifically not want your message split or why it wouldn't be default.

[iCrawl]

Why do you think it should be default?

And if you dont want it to split and it is above 2k characters you can trim the message yourself.

[appellation]

I suppose there aren't enough variable-length messages that could reach the size where it would be a problem. I was just thinking that wanting a split message rather than an error would be preferable to most people, so in the instances where the bot might generate a 2k+ character message, defaulting to that would be better.

But, it is a rather rare situation, so I can see how the explicit statement is fine.

[iCrawl]

I hope you know what that means if you scrape a website and don't know how many characters you will get back right?
It could be 10k, 50k, 100k.
Defaulting it would result in you spamming the shit out of a channel and even get ratelimited.

[appellation]

Never considered that people do that with bots. Fair point.

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 9:24 PM -0700, "Crawl" <notifications@g.yxqyang.asiamailto:notifications@github.com> wrote:

I hope you know what that means if you scrape a website and don't know how many characters you will get back right?
It could be 10k, 50k, 100k.
Defaulting it would result in you spamming the shit out of a channel and even get ratelimited.

[devsnek]

that's a nice auth token there, it would be a shame if someone got their hands on it...

[appellation]

wtf. the message at the bottom said i could just reply 😢