From cc0a4eeb67e6abfdfc881fa8ad2324c76dc03ff7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiayu Yi Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 09:56:00 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md This adds a short description of how WhatsApp Spoilers works and a link to the related blog post. --- README.md | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 700631e..e8f0e98 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,7 +1,16 @@ -# whatsapp-spoilers +# WhatsApp Spoilers Send WhatsApp messages with spoiler tags! ![spoiler](spoiler.png) +## About + +If a message is longer than a certain limit, WhatsApp clients will truncate it +and show a "Read more" link instead. By padding a message with 4000 [zero-width +joiners](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_joiner), we can force this +behaviour and emulate a spoiler tag. + +Read the full write-up at https://blog.jiayu.co/2018/05/whatsapp-spoilers/. + ## Credits Ji An