Every time there's a story that mentions OpenOffice, I check to see whether this bug has been fixed yet. It hasn't. The comments are probably TL;DR, but the idea is that if you attempt to join two paragraphs into one paragraph that would be longer than 65535 characters, it discards all text beyond that point. No warning, no way to undo, and worst of all, absolutely no interest from the developers in fixing it. The standard response? "You shouldn't make paragraphs that long". It's a word processor - it should handle text. Microsoft Office has no such issue.
Getting to the front page of a site, I also usually find it quicker just to type the URL or do a quick search. However, I quite often want to remember a particular page or article, or something nested fairly deeply into its parent site that would take lots of navigation steps to reach, and for that a bookmark is superior.
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Every time there's a story that mentions OpenOffice, I check to see whether this bug has been fixed yet. It hasn't. The comments are probably TL;DR, but the idea is that if you attempt to join two paragraphs into one paragraph that would be longer than 65535 characters, it discards all text beyond that point. No warning, no way to undo, and worst of all, absolutely no interest from the developers in fixing it. The standard response? "You shouldn't make paragraphs that long". It's a word processor - it should handle text. Microsoft Office has no such issue.
Getting to the front page of a site, I also usually find it quicker just to type the URL or do a quick search. However, I quite often want to remember a particular page or article, or something nested fairly deeply into its parent site that would take lots of navigation steps to reach, and for that a bookmark is superior.
It would've been if this had happened. Merge too much text together and... goodbye.
He's above a link saying "View a list of the world's biggest cyber attacks.". Guess he's apparently one of those.