Nay

There will never be a limit that won’t (rarely) inconvenience someone. (Unless they make the limit absolutely ridiculous or remove the limit all together.)

Your list is missing some things. Link, title, thumbnail, author name, link domain name, upvotes/downvotes total, community, instance, how long ago it was posted, and many other things. But perhaps most importantly, the post body. More context is what the body of the post is for.

Also, why 225-250? Why not 350? Why not 600? Why should we expect that if we set it to 250 or 300 that there won’t still be a threshold just a few more characters away from that limit that would supposedly improve things for another 0.01% of posts?

I don’t agree that a longer title field would even be “better” for the particular post you linked. The linked post could be titled something like “New Executive Order: ‘Preventing Woke AI In The Federal Government’” and if you didn’t think the linked-to page could speak entirely for itself, you could elaborate at great length in the post body.

Iphone gives less opportunity for user “ownership” of our devices.

But I doubt there are many people who haven’t made personal sacrifices for loved ones.

I didn’t intend for the “lifespan” bit to be an analogy. I meant that sleep deprivation will literally shorten one’s life. Especially if it’s a frequent occurrence. When it comes to things like 3:00am calls, I’ll prioritize my health over my usefulness to the business any day.

Sorry to say I don’t have any good answers about this. When midnight on-call calls became a fairly regular occurrence for me, I quit my job to go somewhere it wouldn’t be any significant issue.

But if it helps, I’ve always gone back to bed after a call and laid there trying to fall asleep until either I fell asleep and got a little bit of extra sleep or my alarm went off and I had to work. I always felt like crap when I did, but I doubt I’d have felt any less bad had I stayed up instead. My theory was that even if staying up might be preferable at the time, going back to bed, even if I only got an hour of sleep, would be better for me (at least in terms of not shortening my lifespan as much) in the long run.

(Full disclosure, I’m a coder, not a sysadmin, but they were taking DevOps pretty seriously, so I was on call for the applications my team maintained.)