Please upgrade your forums.

[Enkidoh]

I can't be the only one that is annoyed by this. Not only does the layout look like something that belongs in the late 90s, but the sheer fact that there is such a small character limit with the only way to bypass it by having to edit every post you make is a little bit ridiculous in this day and age.

Well, the layout style of the forum is not SE's fault as the forum software is not their own software - the FFXIV forum uses VBulletin which is proprietary forum software (probably the widest used forum software on the net really) so they're limited by what the software allows. Also the forum's brown colour scheme is a legacy of the original Lodestone for the now shutdown 1.0 version of FFXIV which had an interface in a more old fashioned style, so the forum's colour scheme was styled to fit that accordingly.

As for the posting restrictions blame the zealous testers on the Beta forum for that, they spammed the Beta forum to hell and back, so SE introduced posting restrictions there, and probably was spooked so much about it that they introduced similar restrictions for posting here on the main forum when ARR launched as well, so as to prevent that happening again. So once again, 'this is why we can't have nice things.'

[Bourne_Endeavor]

As for the posting restrictions blame the zealous testers on the Beta forum for that, they spammed the Beta forum to hell and back, so SE introduced posting restrictions there, and probably was spooked so much about it that they introduced similar restrictions for posting here on the main forum when ARR launched as well, so as to prevent that happening again. So once again, 'this is why we can't have nice things.'

The beta was over four years ago. I have moderated forums with a large member base and they didn't have such an arbitrary restriction. It doesn't even work as a spam filter since everyone knows the workaround. Why they actually keep it is to filter spam, not that it works for that either. At this point, there simply isn't a good reason.

[Shurrikhan]

The beta was over four years ago. I have moderated forums with a large member base and they didn't have such an arbitrary restriction. It doesn't even work as a spam filter since everyone knows the workaround. Why they actually keep it is to filter spam, not that it works for that either. At this point, there simply isn't a good reason.

Similarly, one would think then that the daily post limit would be sufficient. I mean, what kind of spam would require a larger character count over a larger post count?