Post size limit?

Vela_Nanashi

How big can posts be on this forum, I have a almost 60k word story, on another forum I post on the post size is mak 64kb, and then I can post the story in header and 5 parts. Also my other stories tend to be hefty too, so would be nice to know the limits of the forum, if known so I don’t have to experimentally try to find it. Thanks to anyone who knows and shares 🙂

Shocker

We have tested this experimentally and found the limit for a single post to be

“The content must not be greater than 65535 characters”

Vela_Nanashi

Thank you for your help and information, that is very convenient too, should be able to post exactly the same 64kb chunks I like using on one of my other forums 🙂

So after some sleep I will try to post some stories. Funny how one of the prompts fit with it for the contest, but me getting a story in at 3500words is not easy anymore for me 🙂 The other forum has a minimum limit of 3333 words so it is kind of funny🙂

Vela_Nanashi

Seems the limit is for the whole thread or I am just super confused in how it counts characters, or need plaintext to not expand some of them to take more than one byte.

I was wrong see below.

Vela_Nanashi

I add a update here, I think what happened when I took my pure plaintext simple straight quote to the limit sized chunk of text, it got fancified in that all its quotes got changed from straight to fancy, and those take more characters, and I babble a lot in my posts and my characters are very possessive, so that pushes me over the limit, so I ended up just halving the less than 65535 char/byte posts roughly down the middle and then they fitted, so if you like me do that. I would like to be able to stop my simple straight quotes being changed when I write/post but it does not seem to be a feature in the editor here that I understand how to make that happen with.

ZipTiesThatBind

Vela_Nanashi It sounds like you want to disable the rich-text editor, which you can do by clicking the fountain-pen button in the toolbar when you have the post composer open.

Vela_Nanashi

‘ ’'‘ ’''''' no it still does it no matter if the fountain pen is on or off

code “works” maybe ‘lets see’ yeah seems to, hmm can I enable that for a whole post?… it still tries to change three dots to the symbol for it and probably also wants to fuck with — yes it wants to convert those too, but maybe I could use that, but only if it works for a whole post. Would be nice if there was a “turn all fancy features off mode and give me just raw plaintext mode”

ZipTiesThatBind

Vela_Nanashi Yes, the forum does still parse posts as Markdown and BBCode, which you cannot disable completely. You would only regain a handful of bytes, anyway, though. If your issue is stylistic, you can escape special characters. For example \-\-\- gets me --- instead of —

Vela_Nanashi

no I was wrong again… code does not help it ‘fixes’ it after

or is this code 'test' ... ok yes that code looks like it does something "maybe I can use that then?" I said. of course it bolds and alters background of code, but I do love that it is monotype/fixedwidth text, like I prefer to write in, yes, I can use this :)

Vela_Nanashi

yeah will maybe try to fix up my posted stories with code box, or at least future stories.

Vela_Nanashi

style and not wanting to need to cut posts that should fit into smaller parts 🙂

so I will add two bytes to escape the whole post as a code block 🙂

ZipTiesThatBind

I don’t think there’s any way around having to break up long stories into multiple posts in a single thread, but escaping special characters is probably worth not having your entire story look like code. 😁

Vela_Nanashi

no loved the look of code 🙂 so unless preventing the formatting is added as option I will be doing the code thing.

Vela_Nanashi

and no I can’t do that either apparently… sigh I give up.

ZipTiesThatBind

Vela_Nanashi What didn’t work about making the entire post a code block? I’m happy to help.

Vela_Nanashi

it did not let the whole thing be code

Vela_Nanashi

noting was code

Vela_Nanashi

I do have a theory actually why that happened, probably the limit for finding the matching closing symbol/tag in the post body is less than the size of it for the parser that tries to find the matching tags, so it thinks it must not be a code block since it gives up before it reads all the 65535 characters, and since I wanted the first and last character to be code in a 65535 character post that did not work because of that. alternatively it interprets one of those symbols alone on a line as not itself, or something else like that, I will give another experiment a go later today to see if adding characters after and before the symbols helps and maybe try to explore how far they reach, but it would be easier to look at the parser code if it was available, could maybe tell then what is going on, but my coding is very rusty and I have been far too annoying about this already, sorry.

mini test no text near the ticks ‘does it work?’ “do I still have straight quotes?” … — at least the editor looks right, let’s see post though…

no that broke ok let’s try one with text right after and before the code things

`//this is code you silly parser

mini test no text near the ticks ‘does it work?’ “do I still have straight quotes?” … — at least the editor looks right, let’s see post though…

//this is code you silly parser`

hmm no ok…

switching on rich text thingy and selecting text this time:

"I continue to fight and fight the 'horrors' of the parser, ... let me be free" let me continue to add more code please yes ok this looks good in the editor 'will it remain good when I save changes'? still parses ... on typing them in side of code --- and the dashes too, it should not be doing that, but that is fine I can perhaps force it to work, does it though 'yes' or "no" :) no smileys I like them as text (:

now switching off rich text in edit, does it break that code block?

no it did not for some reason how can it tell the difference is it an empty line that wrecks it?

`“I continue to fight and fight the ‘horrors’ of the parser, … let me be free” let me continue to add more code please yes ok this looks good in the editor ‘will it remain good when I save changes’? still parses

empty lines

… on typing them in side of code — and the dashes too, it should not be doing that, but that is fine I can perhaps force it to work, does it though ‘yes’ or “no” 🙂 no smileys I like them as text (:`

yes that broke it let’s see if one new line breaks it

one new line is okay what about two

two new lines like is normal in any code programmers will write and quote breaks the code block, figured it out 🙂

Vela_Nanashi

Sorry about the spam in this thread by me, just had to do simple exploration, the code blocks do not handle double new lines, such as one would put between functions in coding or paragraphs in text, or many many other places, so I think code blocks are broken in the parser, for the intended purpose and the abuse I was going to put it through 🙂

Sadly that only makes them a tiny bit better than the not useful for me escape character suggested, as each paragraph of text would need to be wrapped in them and that is not going to save me a lot of bytes, will give me straight quotes though, so maybe it can be useful, would need to reserve two chars per text containing line for that, doable maybe, I may actually give that a try with a post, however deleting a thread is not very clean, can someone delete a thread permanently if asked or would that just be permanent litter?