Are there statistics about message refusals because too short?

[Matija_Nalis]

@amapanda_ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ

Not exactly true. The website does save your <10 character reply as a draft. You can see the regular HTTP POST requests to https://community.openstreetmap.org/drafts.json. It also many other requests.

drafts messages are sent every time the message is update after some delay (when user stops typing?). That seems unrelated to too short error. Here is my methodology:

• click reply
• type two letters
• wait few seconds until discourse network traffic become quiescent
• press reply
• immediately get Post must be at least 10 characters error (with no network traffic observed)
• wait few seconds, dismiss the error, and press reply again
• immediately get Post must be at least 10 characters error (with no network traffic observed)
• wait few seconds, dismiss the error, and press reply again
• immediately get Post must be at least 10 characters error (with no network traffic observed)
• wait few more dozen seconds, and see other periodic network messages flow (e.g. /poll, /update etc.) - and seem to do so regardless of whether that error was sent or not (i.e. that do that for this post too, which is long enough)

e.g. in this example below, I waited until that entry at 25.23s mark passed, and pressed reply at about 27s, 31s and 35s (as described above), with no network traffic being generated until 50.43s.