🏒 Lucian Marin
I added a character counter to help you write posts that are close to 640 characters in length. It won't appear for short texts or on mobile. The main reason for the character limit is that I don't want Sublevel to replace blogging. That's hard work and people deserve some sort of pay. There's a personal reason too. I like it this way. It's handy and it just works.
Adam Douglas
I think the character limit helps keep comments succinct and makes Sublevel a community that is easy to "drop in" to. Not that everyone would post essays without a char limit but still. The whole point of Twitter was to chop down and centralise blogging into microblogging and Sublevel is supposed to be a cleaner alternative to Twitter. It also enables posts to remain plain text: with no char limit, post formatting (via e.g. markdown) would be desirable to delineate sections and things like headings and bulleted lists would be required.