PM Character Limit

The post I previously had about this has vapourised so I'm doing it again.

What do people think the new character limit should be? In correspondence just a minute ago, I easily hit the 2000 character limit. I'm all for putting it at 5k, any objections? I need to know what people think before I file a ticket.

Thanks
--James

I'd go with that, can't see myself ever using it, but if someone else needs it, ...

Ticket submitted Ticket, if you can see it

Nope, we don't have access to see those types of duhickies.

I am going to submit one to have my name changed.
Chad

All our forums using 2000 character limit for PM for many years now. Is there any special reason why you want to increase up to 5000.

You could easily email the person if you want to send him/her a big message, give us some examples or reasons of benefit of doing this. Just to let you know, we are trying to do our best to optimize our database (keep record size low) so our servers will run with minimum wait time for users.

Well I do have an example. However, I am not going to post the message because of the PM being private thing.

Basically it was a message from Guelphdad and he was helping me with what I was doing in MySQL. When I went to reply to his questions so he could see what the question was I went over the 2000 character limit and had to erase his questions to get under that. It would have been helpful in that situation to be able to have 5000 characters instead of 2000.

That's why I support LP's idea for a 5000 character limit. I do understand that you are working to keep the record sizes low and also to optimize how the system runs, which we appreciate a lot! However, now that the questions are getting more advanced and the systems are becoming more complex due to the demands of the industry that we are all in it is almost imperitive that a higher limit be set. Possibly set it per user? Is that a possibility? That way some users can request to have a higher character limit. Or what about when a user passes 1000 posts or something like that? I don't know I am just throwing out some ideas about this.

Thanks for all your hard work,
Chad

I've been hitting it since I first got here, tbh.

The problem is that you can't quote someone on a detailed PM and reply, at all. In some cases you still can't fit your message even when you've removed all quotes.

Many members choose not to enable the 'allow other members to contact me via email' option, something I myself don't enable. That, and considering it's devshed related, I feel it's something devshed should be doing.

I understand you're thinking of your DB here, but for the infrequency with which people send and receive PMs, I think it's workable. (Unless it has to query every time you access the usercp, in which case you could look at a cache table for 'new' PMs)

We are going to up the limit, we will get to it by end of day.

j

That's great thank you, take your time. It shouldn't be a top priority for you guys. Just would be nice to implement you know?

Chad

Thanks for listening

No point in repping you guys if you're stuck at 10, if you send out the pig we'll give it +ve rep, honest