Automatic membership email domains is too long error

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@pfaffman

Because it’s easy to count characters and 1000 seems like a lot. I think that whoever choose 1000 would agree that it’s arbitrary, but that it’s arbitrarily high.

When we initially applied the limits we had a much lower limit (100 characters). But someone ran into that limit, and we raised it on the assumption that the longest domains in the world are only in the 70s of characters long, and most domains will be much shorter, so it seemed like a good number that would strike the balance between advanced use-cases and performance.

@genachka

Would maybe have been sense if it was a domain count limit of say 1000 domains but why a character limit in a list like this, seems pretty arbitrary or just a re-use of an existing component that has it else where.

For this particular setting, that list of domains is checked every time a new user is created. If the number of allowed characters is too high the operation is going to cause trouble for your site.

@genachka

We are using this particular group to allow for additional access to support area(s) of our community. So anyone within the domain name that we add to this should have that access. A rough count in that list is about 60 domain names which I don’t think is all that unreasonable.

Are these like partner vendors or a network or sites? Please describe them with as much detail as you feel comfortable.

If you are hitting the limit of 1,000 characters with 60 domains, I’m not sure raising that value is going to help you in the long run. However, we see folks using groups for really interesting things, so knowing how you use email domains to organize your community gives us insight on improvements to make to the interface.