Post Length Maximum

[corco]

The post length maximum is currently 20,000 characters. Is there a way to up that to a nice number like, say, 200,000?

[rickmastfan67]

Going up that high could hurt the database here.  I think we could up it to 25,000 safely, but 200,000 is out of the question.

[hotdogPi]

I have never noticed the upper limit.

[Zeffy]

The post length maximum is currently 20,000 characters. Is there a way to up that to a nice number like, say, 200,000?

Now what could anyone possibly post that is worth reading 200,000 characters of text? I'll tell you one thing: I have ADHD, so I generally skim posts - if there ever was an increase to anything above 50k, I would expect a TL;DR at the bottom otherwise I would skip the post entirely.

I've never personally really come close to that limit, but I would say that the most it should increase by is 15k.

[sammi]

reddit's maximum character limit is 3,000, and yet you see literal walls of text on there. I think 20,000 is more than enough.

[NE2]

I've run up against the limit: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=10423