Max length of boost is checked only on client-side

[Woutuuur]

Message boosts (reactions) can contain any user-supplied message, which is limited in length by the input field. However, this limit is not enforced on the server-side, meaning a manual request can create a boost of any length on a message.

[eivindeb-mb]

This mimics the behavior from Basecamp, where you can "hack" it by increasing or removing the limit. Have you found any practical issues here, in terms of the message being illegible, or being able to pass huge sizes of texts that can be harmful to the host?

This is usually not a setting that the normal participant in the chat room will ever try, and even if they did would not cause any harm as far as I know.

[monorkin]

Hey @Woutuuur, @eivindeb-mb is spot on with his assessment - have you run into any practical issue with the length limit being changed by users?

Internally, we use this as an Easter egg sometimes when we want to to go out of our way to say something through a boost.