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donut2d on March 7, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your b...

Why are passwords limited to 16 characters? That's unnerving.

carizan on March 7, 2014 [–]

Hm, we never thought about it! There's no limit in the database, just client-side restrictions on the input fields ... we'll have to consider.

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