zulip message send error

Stream: general

[Alex Kontorovich]

Is there a maximal message length on zulip? [If so, why wouldn't they cut you off after too many characters?] I keep getting an error: "Error editing message: Unable to render message". It's the long "PNT+: Outstanding Tasks" message; I'm trying to update it and zulip won't let me. (I already had to break it into a bunch of pieces, but now first one can't be modified.. perhaps because it's so long?)

[Alex Kontorovich]

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It's lying, it is able to render the message. But it seems unable (or unwilling!) to send it...??

[Julian Berman]

I think that sounds like it is blowing up trying to parse the message rather than length maybe? At least if you trust the error message -- which a quick search of the Zulip tracker maybe confirms (https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/22287) -- perhaps put it in a gist on GitHub and someone / I can try to figure out what bit is blowing Zulip up