From cdb1824979919f1831a6ac94c331c1d4841eb92e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kathryn Beaty <kathryn.beaty@voxmedia.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 11:17:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] truncate comment body sent to slack to stay under char limits

---
 .../core/server/events/listeners/slack/publishEvent.ts   | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/server/src/core/server/events/listeners/slack/publishEvent.ts b/server/src/core/server/events/listeners/slack/publishEvent.ts
index 02f5b3c042..e2165934f3 100644
--- a/server/src/core/server/events/listeners/slack/publishEvent.ts
+++ b/server/src/core/server/events/listeners/slack/publishEvent.ts
@@ -103,9 +103,12 @@ export default class SlackPublishEvent {
     );
     const commentLink = getURLWithCommentID(this.story.url, this.comment.id);
 
-    const body = getHTMLPlainText(getLatestRevision(this.comment).body);
+    // We truncate to less than 3000 characters to stay under Slack limits
+    const truncatedBody = getHTMLPlainText(
+      getLatestRevision(this.comment).body
+    ).slice(0, 2999);
     return {
-      text: body,
+      text: truncatedBody,
       blocks: [
         {
           type: "section",
@@ -121,7 +124,7 @@ export default class SlackPublishEvent {
           block_id: "body-block",
           text: {
             type: "plain_text",
-            text: body,
+            text: truncatedBody,
           },
         },
         {