Jetée

I believe I've encountered this hindrance but only once, but is the standard limit for total characters to be allowed within a single post universally set at 10,000 characters, or is it even higher at around 12,000 characters? Elsewhere, I also encountered the limit in private messaging, where it stated that the limit was exactly half of what I had originally perceived, at no more than 5,000 characters allowed to be properly sent.

I just wish to know for future reference, and I would also like to know if there was ever an impetus for this limit to be changed at all (or just tell me if it is even possible to increase/reduce the number of type symbols allowed).

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Willravel

I think there is, actually. I haven't a clue what it is.

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Cynthetiq

50,000 for posts. I don't remember what it is for PMs

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Jetée

I'm intrinsically-aware of the limit, say at around 10,000 characters, from what I've heard and seen through sources, although I've never encountered it myself yet--but I'm not sure if the same is to be said here at the TFP; perhaps it can be altered to a higher limit, and has been before.

Also, does the character total tally include blank spaces and character inside brackets?

---------- Post added at 03:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:10 PM ----------

After Cyn's post:
Wow, that's extensively higher than I orginally speculated; I really shouldn't ever fear having to hit that limit then... thanks for the quickest of replies.

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Cynthetiq

I'm not sure about blank spaces, but all characters are counted including the brackets.

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Jetée

That's what I thought... alright, again, thanks for the question's quick resolution.

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guccilvr

I'm pretty sure Host used to come close to the limit on some of his posts...

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SecretMethod70

Yes, he did. In fact, there were a number of times he surpassed it, sometimes twice over. (We know this because he would make multiple posts in a row to get around it.)

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