I sort of wish #Amaroq would let me input any number for character limit and customize the buttons and things so I could at least hand-skin it like #WitchesTown, since those sorts of customization aren't exposed over the API.
I'm not sure what would happen if a client POSTed a toot bigger than the instance's character limit… surely that's not just enforced at the client level. I guess dealing with the result of that error might be more pain in the ass than it's worth in an app… 
@benhamill it is enforced at both the client and backend level yes
@benhamill the result of that error is that the backend returns "uh oh you're not supposed to do that lol" and that's it
@wxcafe Yeah. I assume it's "400 WTF, Breaux?" But then the client has to, like, have a flow to express that to the user and recovery loop or whatever. Which to make it nice might be a lot of work.
@benhamill It's not that hard, just look at the result of the query and display a popup if it's not okay?
@wxcafe Yeah. Then do you offer to adjust the local setting down? Do you try to detect the limit expressed in the error message (if it's there)? Etc.
@benhamill you could also just scrape the home tho
@benhamill I'd just error out and tell the user that's too long, if they have to manually adjust it in the first place they'll understand why it doesn't work