Do not limit counts to 999.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

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Per nextcloud/tasks#2416 (comment), I believe that https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/developer_manual/html_css_design/navigation.html#counter:~:text=the%20counter%20should%20be%20limited%20to%20999%20and%20turn%20to%20999%2B%20if%20any%20higher%20number%20is%20given should be reconsidered. I see no reason for counts to be limited to 999, especially because every time I encounter that value, it's exactly when I care about the count of what I'm looking at (because it's usually notably large and thus usefully quantified).

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[tflidd]

For menu elements, it can make sense that the size does not increase to much (e.g. having 172512 new elements). In the end it depends what and where it is, just randomly choose 1000 as limit for everything. I experienced the same thing in different software, where they did a similar thing and I had a counter between 1200 and 1800, and it was really painful to see 999+ all the time. In contrast to Nextcloud it wasn't open source, so I couldn't even change it for myself 😡

Would this be an option: Do it like file sizes, e.g. 1.7k+ for more than 1700 but less than 1800, it is shorter but contains a bit more information than just 999+?