Character limit in posts?

[Evilshy 5,093]

Is there a maximum character count for a single post?

 

 

Just curious about the best way to post a rather long fanfic that I haven't finished yet. Ideally, I'd like to post chapter 1 now, and then as I finish each further chapter, add it to the first post, so that all the chapters can be in one nice little post (in spoilers, of course).

 

However, chapter one is nearly 17,000 characters long, so I need to know how much of this fanfic I can fit in a single post.

[Lady Rarity Pony 4,894]

17,000 characters can most certainly fit.

 

Assuming Feld0's WiiUForums and the MLPForums have the same character limits, then you should have no worries when posting something long.

I've posted some extremely long posts in the spam thread over there.

[Starshine 16,335]

http://mlpforums.com/topic/18854-post-character-count-limit/#entry419058

 

The per-post limit is 1,048,576 characters - or 1 MB, to put it another way. Keep in mind that formatting your text in any way will use up additional characters to store the formatting.

[Evilshy 5,093]

17,000 characters can most certainly fit.

 

Assuming Feld0's WiiUForums and the MLPForums have the same character limits, then you should have no worries when posting something long.

I've posted some extremely long posts in the spam thread over there.

 

I'm not worried about chapter one not fitting, I'm worried that future chapters might not. I don't want the thread to look like:

 

chapter one

chapter two

comments

comments

comments

chapter three

comments

comments

chapter four

comments

etc.

 

http://mlpforums.com...it/#entry419058

 

Oh... nevermind then.

 

I'm an idiot for not searching first. Disregard this thread and feel free to banish me to the moon

[That One Techpriest You Used To Know 2,286]

I'm not worried about chapter one not fitting, I'm worried that future chapters might not. I don't want the thread to look like:

 

chapter one

chapter two

comments

comments

comments

chapter three

comments

comments

chapter four

comments

etc.

 

 

 

Oh... nevermind then.

 

I'm an idiot for not searching first. Disregard this thread and feel free to banish me to the moon

 

I refuse to banish you to the moon. It's too cool for you.

If it matters to you, then why don't you just make a new thread for each different chapter?

[Doctor XFizzle 8,670]

I feel it is now apropos to say

 

IT'S OVER 9,000!!!!!!!

[Evilshy 5,093]

I refuse to banish you to the moon. It's too cool for you.

If it matters to you, then why don't you just make a new thread for each different chapter?

 

Because then people would have to look for each chapter, as opposed to just checking the original thread.

[Twilight Sparkle ✨ 8,529]

The character limit is over a million characters, as I said in the post Dreamwalker quoted, so it is extremely unlikely you or anyone else will ever write a post that crosses that limit.

 

However, what you may want to be aware of is that IP.Board has a limit of 500 BBCodes per post. Believe it or not, I discovered that one the hard way once. I can up this limit a bit if it becomes an issue, but processing a post with thousands of BBCodes will result in a serious performance hit when viewing your OP. This limit shouldn't be an issue if you're relatively conservative with the formatting of your fic (ie. you don't bold, italicize, colour, and underline words for emphasis, just like a good writer should).