Johhny_Eastland Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 Quick question that I didn't see an answer for when I searched for it. Is there a maximum word limit for a single post? I've scene some posts around 2k but didn't know if it capped off at a point. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ark1002 Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 I don't have any difinitive evidence, but I think that it would make sense, which is why a lot of pinned threads have multiple posts by the creator instead of one HUGE one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 Maybe in old versions but I believe in the modern version posts can be very lengthy. Ark is not correct; pinned topics having multiple posts is useful for linking individual sections. That's the primary purpose. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mestiv Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 There is a length limit for a post, but it's not the number of words but number of characters. It's very high though, around 350 000, as reported here: (I'm not gonna bore you with encoding details that affect this limit) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johhny_Eastland Posted August 23, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 5 hours ago, Mestiv said: There is a length limit for a post, but it's not the number of words but number of characters. It's very high though, around 350 000, as reported here: (I'm not gonna bore you with encoding details that affect this limit) This actually helps a lot! I couldn't find this when I was searching the forums. I have a very very long post I've been building and was planning on changing things if there was a limit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toaster Retribution Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 7 hours ago, Mestiv said: around 350 000 Do I suck with wordcounts, or is this longer than some of Brandons books? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagerunner Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 (edited) 42 minutes ago, Toaster Retribution said: Do I suck with wordcounts, or is this longer than some of Brandons books? 350K characters counts up letters, spaces, punctuation. At 6 characters per word, that'll be around 58K words. That's right around what Alcatraz books run at, so technically yes, it is longer than some of his books. But even Alloy of Law, his shortest adult novel, comes in at 85K. His other YA stuff runs around 100K. So the books you could include in a single post are few and far between. EDIT: Forgot to link my wordcount source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bLYPHdhopXVh81lTy1KZHfKZX2voue3bukb90u2_Kyw/pubhtml Edited August 23, 2018 by Pagerunner 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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