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Case in point: gist in C++ chat. It fills the whole screen. Or, as DeadMG puts it:

whoah, giant wall'o'text

I suggest reducing the max-height by half, i.e. 300px. That should be enough.

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  • +1 People should understand their code and only include the relevant parts, otherwise explain what their code does (which is usually just copying the comments if you're clean coding). I think this is by-design though, so you might want to turn it into a feature request instead where it is 300px by default and an expand link is available just like how the normal fixed font chat messages function... Commented Apr 2, 2012 at 11:17
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    @Tom Bugs can be by design. As far as I’m concerned this is a UI bug. Commented Apr 2, 2012 at 11:39
  • I was referring more to [status-bydesign], perhaps it has been done with a reason... Commented Apr 2, 2012 at 11:53
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    @TomWijsman this is the only type of onebox that takes up so much screen estate. Wikipedia, Twitter messages/profiles, SO questions, etc. all seem more reasonable, and the exception for the github onebox violates the principle of least surprise. Commented May 15, 2012 at 15:59
  • the Amazon box is also pretty huge, but not quite as big as the gists Commented Aug 10, 2012 at 15:21
  • Code you enter directly into the textbox is more limited than oneboxed gists. If anything, it should be the other way around. This is silly. Commented Aug 10, 2012 at 17:11
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    @sehe: Actually there are other onebox types that can take up more space. Commented Feb 15, 2013 at 6:19

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