Question Character / line limit

[Maya T]

I'm currently writing a solo story that I (eventually) intend to post on the forums, either for people to just enjoy, to act as a sort of writing sample, as well as just generally getting a bit of feedback on my writing. I'm barely even into the main works of it and I'm already sitting at around 10,000 words / 60,000 characters. I'm assuming that if I try to post it all at once, it's not going to work.

Is there is a maximum message size? And if yes, does anyone know what it is in terms of number of characters?

Thank you for any help!

 

[Xanaphia]

I think 65536 is the character limit.

 

[Maya T]

That is very oddly specific. Thank you!

 

[strangelove]

Specific? No that's just a round number for geeks 2^16

or 2^(2^(2^2))

 

[Vekseid]

It used to be 64k-1. It's stored as a mediumtext column now so feel free to post your novel.

 

[strangelove]

That should be enough for most. That's like 50-100 times the length of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

 

[Xanaphia]

It could fit just under 300k words, if my comparison to my longest running rp is accurate. (296k words, 1.6 million characters)

 

[strangelove]

I think we are talking about 16M characters. So ten times as much.