Forum message length limit is too short.

[Amarande]

The forum message length is just plain too short these days, full stop.

Especially in GD, we have a lot of fast-moving lengthy discussions in which one would generally like to reply to several people during a forum visit. 3000 characters is extremely frequently too short to fit all of the replies into one message without needing to resort to editing after the fact to get around the limit, especially considering that quoting text for context, as well as all related markup, counts towards this limit. (The alternative is to reply to messages separately which results in spammy double-or-more posting)

It is less even than the Discord Nitro message length limit and thus makes especially little sense (forum platforms have naturally been the place for longer form posts, why have a shorter limit than a fast paced chat platform?).

I understand it might not be as noticeable for Japanese posters, as their language structure tends to be more character length efficient (due to constructs such as full-syllable characters that include what would be two or more letters in Western scripts) so perhaps the limit is not hit as often there, but the English forums really need a longer limit.

Please consider expanding the limit, even one or two thousand more characters would greatly reduce the need for edits in busy threads.

[Enkidoh]

They've actually increased it from what it used to be (it was even less originally).

The reason for the limitations was because of back during the later stages of the Beta test for ARR in early/mid 2013 there was a massive influx of new testers that were a little too zealous in their posting on the Beta tester forum - it really did become an absolute trainwreck (this very forum was actually for version 1.0 and so was limited to access at the time to only those who signed up when 1.0 was running).

So, to bring order to the chaos SE implemented posting limitations on the Beta forum and it improved things considerably. And when ARR launched and the Beta test forum was closed and deleted, SE implemented similar posting restrictions here onto the 1.0 forum, now remade into ARR's forum, to head off a repeat of the nonsense.

So blame the trolls on the Beta tester forum in 2013 for the limits.