I’ve been trying to post a - rather long - comment for a while, and it’s just not going through. It just instantly disappears on old.lemmy.world, and sits there spinning on the main site - while one-liner comments elsewhere have worked as normal. I’m not getting errors, but that’s kind of par for the course. Could it be length related?

  • DaveA
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    1 year ago

    Yes there is a length limit. 10k characters I think (edit: this says 50k characters). Try cutting some off and then add it as a reply under your comment.

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        1 year ago

        My link says it’s both and proposes a lower limit for comments. I can’t find anything about actually changing it though so it seems currently it’s the same for both.

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      1 year ago

      Thanks, this may be useful for me in the future

      And I thank OP for asking the question it hadnt occurred to me to ask

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      Just some additional information: I wasn’t able to get any posts over 10k to actually go through, but once I edited them to be lower than 10k characters total, they showed up without issues. Seems like the current limit is still 10k, at least for text posts (but it would be awkward if comments were allowed to be 5x times longer than posts…)

      An easy way to check for the length of what you’re trying to post is to copy it to a text editor and let that program check for the number of characters. 10k is a LOT less than people assume.

      (for comparison, this comment is already over 600 characters long.)


      EDIT: Turns out that 10k is the initial limit for the first post / comment but once you edit it, the limit becomes 50k

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        1 year ago

        Odd, see this comment by another user: https://lemmy.nz/comment/1683278

        They link to a post where they originally had 10k but were able to edit it to be a lot larger. You are both on lemmy.world so it seems you should be able to do it. Maybe try editing and adding stuff to see if that 10k cap is only when originally posting? Maybe when updating to 50k they might have missed a validation that got left at 10k.

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          I just tested it and it actually works! This is really cool, thanks for sharing ;) my guides tend to be VERY in-depth and so far I always had to either cut out paragraphs that weren’t too important or post multiple parts of something that would have been better suited as a single guide. But knowing that I can just edit in 40k more characters later makes this a lot easier. ♪

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            1 year ago

            Haha that’s crazy. Glad it worked!