Post Length Limit Needed

[nightingale]

As far as I can tell, there is no limit on post length.  Found this out when someone posted an entire log file for a support request in the Contract Configurator thread (this post).  Aside from the fact that it's probably pretty rough on your servers, it was a pretty terrible user experience - it caused the whole page to get really slow.  Worse, when I replied it kept the spoiler'ed log in the quote (although it didn't initially appear to).  So I inadvertently made it even worse, and had to go back and edit the post (which again, was painfully slow).

Instituting a post-length limit would probably be a good thing for all involved.

[Gaarst]

There are no limit on the other side either, and if there is, it is 4 chars or less.

Edited November 30, 2015 by Gaarst
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[nightingale]

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[NecroBones]

 

The thing is, if there is an upper limit added, it still needs to be pretty large. Most of the mod release threads have a fairly large OP, since it'll contain part lists, information, and revision histories. If it's a large enough post, the author will often use spoiler tags and the like. But I'd hate to have to start removing information because of a too-strict size limit.

 

I'm not sure where the best balance is.

 

[nightingale]

5 minutes ago, NecroBones said:

 

The thing is, if there is an upper limit added, it still needs to be pretty large. Most of the mod release threads have a fairly large OP, since it'll contain part lists, information, and revision histories. If it's a large enough post, the author will often use spoiler tags and the like. But I'd hate to have to start removing information because of a too-strict size limit.

 

I'm not sure where the best balance is.

 

I'm 95% sure the old forum had a limit, and I never hit it in the Contract Configurator OP (the changelog is ~ 45KB).  So whatever it was set to on the old forum would probably be good enough.

[magico13]

Oh man, if people can post whole log files that's gonna be rough... I second the motion to set it to whatever it was before, or something similar.

[Gaarst]

Thinking about it, I don't remember seeing a length limit on the older forums.

As long as people don't post their entire logs, and that mods are here for the few that actually do, putting a limit is not worth the trouble.

[Hobbes Novakoff]

If I remember correctly, there was a limit of 100,000 characters per post (including text in spoilers and the like). I only know this because the writer of the Kold War fanfic ran into the limit when putting the entire story into his OP.

[KasperVld]

I appreciate this feedback, very useful. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an option to limit the max post length.