It seems that posts on Lemmy cannot exceed 10000 characters. If you type in more than 10000 characters and try to submit the post, you will see that the post submission is being processed but you won’t come any further than that. The post submission will remain in status pending indefinitely.

Edit: Let me add some context to my observation to help you understand why I find the information about the length restrictions useful.

Recently I’ve tried to publish a very long post on Lemmy. As a new user to the platform I initially assumed that there is a lot of traffic on the server and because of that my post takes longer to publish. After some time without any success publishing the post I assumed that there is a server issue and I decided to try again later. A few hours later my post still didn’t want to publish so I assumed that there might be a length restriction that originates from the basic principles of the fediverse (i.e., instances communicating with one another sending copies of their posts and comments to other instances).

To test my hypothesis about the length restrictions I tried posting only the first paragraph of my post. A few seconds later the post was already online. Then I’ve started adding one paragraph at a time and hitting publish until I’ve encountered the same issue (i.e., submission pending indefinitely). When I’ve analysed the edited post I’ve realised that it was almost 10000 characters long.

Had I known from the beginning about the length restriction, then I would have saved a few hours trying to publish the post by splitting it in parts and posting the parts as comments.

      • @NOT_RICK
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        61 year ago

        Dev updates that push features users actually want instead of MBA bullshit features for “engagement”

  • @WhoRoger
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    41 year ago

    What if I edit an existing post, can that fuck up something?

    • @championOP
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      81 year ago

      If you try to edit a post and the edited post exceeds 10000 characters then the edited post will remain in status “pending submission”. There should be no impact on the original post though. Everyone else will still see the unedited version of the post even after trying to submit the edited version.

  • Nougat
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    31 year ago

    And I believe the limit on comments is 5000 characters, based on my having to split a paste of text from a reddit submission into two comments and being notified of that.

    • @rist097
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      01 year ago

      Is there a limit on reddit? Maybe you can open an issue on github to ask to increase the limit up to reddit limit.

  • @_MoveSwiftlyM
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    31 year ago

    Hello there, and welcome to our community! I hope you like it in here.

    Could you please include some body text as to why should people know this, and how would that help them? It’s our second rule. Thank you :)