Maximum character limit needs work

Games Other Halo
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I’ve always been annoyed by the 7500 character limit here on Waypoint, compared to Bungie.net’s 10,000 limit it’s just weird. Whole posts I could fit on B.net need to be whittled down for Waypoint. Heck, I ran into a problem last night when putting a new part on my Halo 4 script here. I had 7360 characters and yet when I tried to post, it said I was over the limit, even though I ran my post through a character checker prior which confirmed I was under it, if slightly.

Is there a reason for such a short limit and if so can it be increased? I apologize if I’m trotting on familiar ground, but this has become a nuisance to me and others.

2

This is off topic. But I wish this site did what Bungie.net, and even YouTube do. They tell you how many characters you have left.

3

> This is off topic. But I wish this site did what Bungie.net, and even YouTube do. They tell you how many characters you have left.

If you have Chrome or Firefox w/ Greasemonkey, install this: Halo Waypoint Posting Tools.

It is a little script Der Flatulator6 put together, it has a character countdown for you that moves.

4

I don’t think I’ve ever used more than a thousand characters. You must type like a beast.

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> I don’t think I’ve ever used more than a thousand characters. You must type like a beast.

Yeah, I’ve never had to use that many characters before…

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If it’s any consolation, Bungie.net’s character limit is bugged in a similar way. I wonder if it has anything to do with a server-side conversion from
to
prior to checking the string length…

(Or, in English: there are two codes for a line break, one of which is twice as long as the other. If the server converts your post to use the longer one prior to checking the length, then you’d end up with more characters than you actually typed, causing you to hit the limit before you’re supposed to.)