So the other day I had a curious experience trying to post a reply in the Ach, where it kept giving me the "Oops! We ran into some problems. Please try again later." error, not just on posting but also on attempt to Preview. But I couldn't see anything unusual about the comment, no external links, no significant formatting. At first I thought it was just a browser thing, a network thing, or a computer thing, but posting here worked fine. Eventually I tried the old bisecting, and that previewed ok, but not just the first half the second half too. Only the whole thing wouldn't preview. So I kept bisecting, and in the end it I found a hard line between what would preview/post and what wouldn't at 6653 characters. Which is kind of a strange number. I did try removing all bbcode tags, on the theory that maybe somehow it was only triggering on content between the tags and ignoring those and that'd be a rounder number, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Even just plain text fails at that point. Also it seems sometimes line breaks are treated differently than ascii? I didn't play around with Unicode multipoint characters to try investigating if there is something there.
Anyway, just kind of odd. I can see why there'd be some round 10k limit or the like, just as a sanity anti-spam/anti-accident thing, but kind of curious why 6653 (or whatever underlying bits or the like)? If it is intentional for whatever reason, I'd suggest having a character count option in the box, or at least some "post too long" that appears because the current error is confusing. Thank you!
Anyway, just kind of odd. I can see why there'd be some round 10k limit or the like, just as a sanity anti-spam/anti-accident thing, but kind of curious why 6653 (or whatever underlying bits or the like)? If it is intentional for whatever reason, I'd suggest having a character count option in the box, or at least some "post too long" that appears because the current error is confusing. Thank you!
