Discord webhook embed description max character limit

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
62/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Locate the Discord webhook sending path and find where the feedback description is placed into the embed. Reproduce the failure with a description longer than 4096 characters, then verify that the webhook sends only the first 4096 characters.

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Description

Discord webhook will fail to send if the description field content is greater than 4096 characters. This is a hard limit set by Discord.

Expected Behavior:
When sending a Discord webhook, only send the first 4096 characters.

Actual Behavior:
The webhook fails to send if the feedback description is greater than 4096 characters.

Dominant language
TypeScript
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