Mattermost limits messages to 4000 characters due to the database column type used and in order to not affect performance, that’s the limit for the foreseeable future. There’s automation users are building that needs to send messages more than 4000 characters long. Opening a thread to get ideas an…

Recommendations for handling automation that wants to post messages longer than 4000 characters per message

g371 (JR) February 9, 2018, 2:13pm 9

Why not to do exactly as Slack does with snippets?

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