Implemented Remove profile post '420' limit.

Accepted · Dec 29, 2019

So apparently cyp accepted Elliot's suggestion, but then noob reverted it when cyp left? https://www.mineverse.com/threads/remove-profile-post-420-limit.129542/

elliot said: ↑

Hello,
My suggest is pretty self explanatory. Read the title.

Why?
I've just been trying to comment or prove a point on my profile page, and I have had to make 5 consecutive posts to get my point across. I'm not saying remove the cap, but honestly, just make it 2-3000. I mean why are we stressing out over 420 characters?

Let's assume it's because of the size of each typed character.

So, in theory, let's assume everyone is using the Unicode encoding. I don't know what this website will be using but I can guess it's UTF-8. A single Unicode character in the UTF-8 encoding is a maximum of 32 bits.
Let's do the math for that then:

(I'm not going to explain data conversion or encoding to you, just trust me...)

32(bits/per character) x 420(character limit) = 13440
13440 bits in bytes is 1680 bytes.
1680 bytes is 0.00168 megabytes.

How big is a single megabyte? Great question.
Well, let's not calculate that. But let's calculate how many kilobytes we have so far.
So: so far we have 0.00168 megabytes (or 1680 bytes), this converts to around 1.68 kilobytes.
Let's take for example the Mineverse logo:

This is a size of 38 kilobytes.

So my 420 characters on a profile post is 22.61 times smaller than that little logo at the top of the page.
"But Elliot, SPAMMERS! They might come here and type 6 hundred flabillion letters because... Because... Because they want to!"

Well, let's assume spammers do want to come to Mineverse, with the intention of doing any damage:

1 megabyte (a common, but small unit of size) is equal to this amount of bits: 8e+6
Yup. If you do any maths you'll know you're working with quite a big number if you see 'e'...

Spammers would have to do some SERIOUS copy and pasting before they even reach an effective size.
I have a text file on my desktop (I was working on something, don't judge) with 503739 characters in it, and that's just 504 kilobytes. That's half a megabyte. Still VERY small.

"But Elliot. The spammers are actually terminators from the future designed specifically to spam the Mineverse forums!"

That's... Understandable I guess. So let's assume that these terminators are here with the prime goal of attacking the Mineverse forums. If you're this paranoid, here's a compromise: Active Members+ get the post limit removed.

"But Elliot............ The character limit makes you shorten your point to get it across quicker, a bit like Twitter!"

Yeah. No.
We shouldn't have a cap on the characters because it will allow use to 'keep it simple' or some other philosophical rubbish. It's our profile, after all, so who cares? If you're going to tell me that we cannot have conversations on a profile because we need to get our point across better, then that's fairly stupid.

I genuinely don't know what else I can address now. I mean hell, this thread is probably more than every profile post on my profile. So I ask: is the only reason the limit is there is so that Cypriot could configure the number '420' somewhere? ;)

Have a great day.

god i need a hobby...

TL;DR:
- Read the damn post. It took me like 10 minutes.
- Get rid of the character limit.
- Press support.
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bunny said: ↑

Profile status update character limit changed from 140 to 200
Profile post reply character limit changed from 420 to 2000

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Acceptation · Dec 29, 2019

Support. Annoying when I have to type my messages in more than one comment.

Atom · Dec 29, 2019

Support

Andrew475 · Dec 29, 2019

Support

mattenphew · Dec 29, 2019

Support

JustExposed · Dec 29, 2019

support even tho there is a support rating

kinsey_kid · Dec 30, 2019

Someone broke their forums page so I doubt this will happen

Accepted · Dec 30, 2019

kinsey_kid said: ↑

Someone broke their forums page so I doubt this will happen
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in their defence, cyp set it up wrong and mistyped 2000 as some other big number

kinsey_kid · Dec 30, 2019

Laser Kiwi said: ↑

in their defence, cyp set it up wrong and mistyped 2000 as some other big number
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Might talk to Matt and crew about it in the new year

Mega_ · Jan 7, 2020

Neutral. Maybe a 1000ish limit rather than a total removal.

boba · Nov 12, 2022

tbh i don't get the suggestion but i'm going to base off my understand from cyp's post on the original thread you linked.

From what I see, there's no 420 limit, it's set to 2000 (view the last tiny text). So like yea lol. Anyways I bumped up the character limit to 350 tho so enjoy that!

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