With the increased character limit *and* Markdown support, the native QOTO posting interface is going to be enough for most people, *unless* they're specifically looking for a blogging platform.

I just can't see how throttling back the character limit here in order to force people to use a different platform would be a good thing for anyone *except* that other platform.

Maybe we're just dealing with a bit of a language mismatch here and talking at cross-purposes. If @farooqkz wants to boost Writefreely as a service to use in addition to QOTO, that's fine. If the idea is to cut QOTO's features in order to force people to use Writefreely, that's not fine, unless @freemo decides he wants to go in that direction.