Should Farcaster count string lengths as bytes or characters?

Should Farcaster count string lengths as bytes or characters?

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B: Regardless of the tool, it is humans who ultimately using them. Therefore, it's important choose a more user-friendly approach, one that is more attuned to our human nature.

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B has some significant user downsides: you’ll be able to publish only half as many messages. 

The question really is would you be willing to cut 50% of messages you can store for having a few long messages being slightly easier to compose

If messages are 320 bytes max,  message size can be  1-320 bytes.

If messages are 320 chars max, message size can be  1-1280 bytes.

Limits are calculated by number of messages, but we want to place an upper bound of how many bytes a user can add to the network.

Does a message containing only “gm” count as a full message length?  Otherwise I don’t get why you can publish only half as many messages.

You can either have an easier to use length limit or a larger size limit. Both are, I think, user facing problems 

So I’m not sure that I agree that one option is clearly better for users.

The problem is that there is a length limit for messages. No matter how you count, there will always be someone whose needs cannot be met. So why not choose a way that is easier for people to understand?

In addition, if most people feel that the word count is not enough, I think the word limit should be increased rather than counting method.