No worries! I think it's fun, messing with unique, slightly hokey systems to make them work better. The really interesting question is what DID you increase the last time? :)

Apparently, exactly what it SAID I increased - the maximum size of an email text. (If you click the 'email notification on reply' button, which I've never done, I'm guessing it gives you some idea of where a particular post is, in a thread - and THAT size is limited by the parameter I changed.)

Odd. I didn't find any other parameters that were locked at 10,000.

I'll look again.

Insteresting. (That sounds better out loud than it reads...)

The proper parameter is no longer displayed in the current admin template; I had to edit it directly in the database.

Fixed now, though. Sorry.

Odd. I didn't find any other parameters that were locked at 10,000.

I'll look again.

10000 character limit? Makes having epic discussions and responding to long speculative posts (or posts below) really difficult, especially when quoting sections and replying below the quotes. I just had a hell of a time cutting back 4000 characters to get back to that 10000. This will stifle discussion in the future as Destiny content becomes meatier.

Probably not, and I'm not sure doing so would necessarily be a great idea. While I certainly respect the desire to converse at length about the wonderfulness of being a Bungie fan, gamer, and Destiny follower, 10,000 characters is quite a bit. I like to see the character limit as a built-in editing device. If you really and truly have so much to say that you're running significantly past that limit even after self-editing, then a "(Part 1)/(Part 2)" notation on multiple posts would probably be in order.

(and now I'll have to eat crow when Claude bumps the limit. :) )

HBO's character limit was set by the limitations of the original server's version of perl - it would only write 2^16 bytes at a time to disk, so that was the limit of a post.

There are very, very few posts in HBO's 14+ years of existence that use that quantity of characters in a way that made me think "hmm... if we had a lower character limit, I wouldn't have had to look at this." I agree that folks should think about what they write, and that tools that gently help them do that are usually good things... but in this case, I don't think it's the CHARACTER LIMIT that's limiting the quality of posts. :)

Luckily, that value is easily changed, if I'm proven to be wrong. :)

Yeah nobody wants no stinking avatars...

Hunters are the best.

Asimov spins thoughtfully in approval.

Okay, maybe too much to ask for in one day. I'll wait ;)

And I meant to divide the responses into 'pages' much in the same way most PC hardware reviews do. Not simply segmentate text, but separate stuff that has almost nothing to do with each other.

But the only reason they do that is to increase page impressions to satisfy advertisers. It has nothing to do with longform publication (which if you read any from blogs that don't use adverts, you'll notice they never divide into pages).