Forum post character limit increased

[Tint]

The title of the topic made me really excited.

But only 3000? Well, better than 1000... However, we are editing posts to bypass the limit since forever and it seems nobody had a problem with it. So why not simply remove the limit completely, when it is allowed to make longer posts?

I really don't understand...

[Fawkes]

Greetings!

You’ve all been asking and we are happy to share, the character limit for forum posts has been increased to 3000 characters.

Thank you for your continued support of Final Fantasy XIV, we look forward to hearing more feedback from you!

Honestly this is amazing. Thank you.

[Esp]

Greetings!

You’ve all been asking and we are happy to share, the character limit for forum posts has been increased to 3000 characters.

Thank you for your continued support of Final Fantasy XIV, we look forward to hearing more feedback from you!

Thank you so much for this. It's been long overdue.

[InkstainedGwyn]

Sure unlimited would be nice, but most of the posts I get nailed for are like at 1100 or 2000 characters. So I think this will mean I have to edit a lot less.

[Iscah]

Why is everyone complaining? This is great. I’ve written plenty of posts that hit the 1000 limit but can now go through, and I don’t think the 3000 limit is going to be a problem very often. And when it is, you can still edit to get around it!

[Ghastly]

Thank you, hopefully one day it's based on time subscribed or join date but this is great.

[ElHeggunte]

Because we'd have no patience with a single post that takes 10-15 minutes to read?

Because typing 5-10 thousand words 'just to make a point' might be seen as overkill?

Because we really don't want to read an in-depth 'rant' that is that long?

Speak for yourself. I for one like reading and writing posts that aren't so short and devoid of detail that it may as well be a shorthand text message. Larger limits allow for more detail and nuance on a subject that probably needs more than three sentences to discuss. And as people have figured out how to bypass the original 1k limit anyway (and that SE clearly doesn't care) there doesn't seem to be any real reason to have a limit at all or at least not one so small. A larger limit also reduces spam too since the people who aren't aware of the bypass technique usually wind up making a chain of posts anyway.

So I for one am glad that the limit has been increased, even though I wish it were higher or gone completely. Most of my longer posts don't usually exceed 2k characters anyway.

Side note, it would be nice if SE added a character counter so I don't have to attempt previewing or posting just to find out I'm only a few characters over the limit, which has ironically happened with this very response.

Side side note question: Is this change live yet? Do I need to clear cookies? Because not counting this paragraph here, this post is well under 2000 characters and the forums are still preventing me from submitting it normally.

[KisaiTenshi]

Question : Why just not... going to a REAL coherent limit? . . . no because ok its cool, 3k instead of 1k but why not going to atleast 20k or 50k? ...

The way I do posts on the forum is by writing the entire thing regardless of the character limit, copy it to the clipboard, delete everything but the first line, and then paste it. I've occasionally erased posts this way, but it's better than writing "long post incoming, please wait 30 minutes", and the entire thread grows 5 pages before you finish.

But the limit is really about trying to keep posts concise, and you can do this in Japanese. In English however, often the person you reply to eats 800 characters, and thus it's incredibly obnoxious to reply to a thread where multiple quotes are involved.

[Gemina]

I'm a verbose person, and even I haven't been barked at for having 2000 characters over the previous limit. That's a loooooooooong post. I'm quite sure most of us can express our point in 3k or less

Thank you for the change!

[Bacent]

Question : Why just not... going to a REAL coherent limit? . . . no because ok its cool, 3k instead of 1k but why not going to atleast 20k or 50k? ...

My replies tend to be either short, of if I'm being detailed on something, literally right over the 1k mark to about 1800-ish characters. The only time people really need to worry is if they're typing many huge paragraphs, or posting an idea or something they had into the forums.

Just be glad it isn't twitter on the character limit. I'd have gone over that by now with my post.