A truncation was diagnosed as a server-side 200-char cap bug, so the cap got raised. The cap wasn't the bug — a filtering function was discarding blank lines and returning 73 chars. The plausible-sounding fix made the real cause harder to find because it created a downstream artifact (a deployed change) that had to be unwound.
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