Increase the 100 character limit for Watched Word links

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I’ve got some links which are a bit long (>120 characters), which I’d really like to use Watched Words to link to.

However, these raise this error:

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I can work around this by using a link shortening service (such as the excellent short.io), but it seems a bit arbitrary to have a 100 character limit for this - especially when plenty of naughty websites out there seem to breeze through that limit easily.

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Discovered this when updating my Watched Words list.

My list had 25 phrases when downloaded. However, after revising some versions in some of the URLs (“5.2” to 6.0"), clearing and uploading the revised CSV, there were only 23. There was no failure feedback on the other 2 … so the lists had to be hand-compared.

I only discovered the reason for the failure when trying to add the 2 failed upload items manually.
One was 116 characters and the other was 102

So, between the time the list was last uploaded in August 2024 and now in Apr 2025, the threshold was lowered. Be careful about using this “Watched Words” maintenance feature!