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minus-square18107@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up56arrow-down6·1 day agoIn this case the limit was entirely arbitrary. The programmers were told to pick a limit and they liked 256. There are issues with having a large number of people in a group, but it wasn’t a hardware limit for this particular case.
minus-squareRevan343@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·1 day agoBut it’s still not oddly specific, they picked a nice round number
In this case the limit was entirely arbitrary.
The programmers were told to pick a limit and they liked 256. There are issues with having a large number of people in a group, but it wasn’t a hardware limit for this particular case.
But it’s still not oddly specific, they picked a nice round number