goonalan
Hi there,
I've just been updating my Campaign Wiki page-
http://the-european-union-d-d-5th-edition-campaign.obsidianportal.com/wikis/034e
For last night's session when I stopped being able to type into the page.
After a bit of experimentation I figured that the page has a 6500 character limit on it.
I've never had this happen before and I have other pages with many more characters on them, I know this for a fact because I tried copying text from an old page that I did earlier today onto the page- it only copied over the first 6500 characters...
Has something changed, or am I an idiot- I know which my money is on.
Thanks in advance.
PDR
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I just tried it. Created a new wiki page and generated 6500 characters using the "Lorem Ipsum Generator":http://www.procato.com/lipsum/ (1300 words, roughly 6954 characters).
My text editor reports the paste was truncated at 6,539 characters.
I never noticed this limitation. My site has small pages. So I can't comment on this being a new or old feature.
Can anyone else give it a try?
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Ketherian
I just ran into this issue as well in my wiki - https://skies-of-glass.obsidianportal.com/. Hunting around in the change log I found the note "BUG FIX: Update adventure log character post limit from 6500 to 21,844 characters" but no comment that our wiki page's were going to be limited as well. Given I've got pages easily ranging up to 50 or 60 thousand characters that my group is still working on and expanding, this is an unfortunate problem for us. Is this just a temporary bug that came about from fixing the adventure log issue, or is this an undocumented change that's actually going to be sticking around? If the latter, is there any sort of option we might have to increase/remove this cap?
Thanks for any support here,
- Planeswalker
The team is willing to look at all options to increase the cap. The existing setting was 6500 characters, and today it was increased to 21,844 characters which is the limit under the current utf-8 / database schema in use at this time.
The feedback we received from users today, and our testing shows that it increased the character limit in the adventure log as anticipated. Are you suggesting that this change negatively impacted the limit on WIKI pages? If that is the case we would want to investigate that. Another consideration discussed is also the effective HTTP and database timeouts. Our experience is that posting large blocks of content can sometimes lead to various other time-outs in web apps. When the team returns, we can have them perform upper bound testing as maybe required, and verify what the limitation is on the WIKI editor.
Yeah, I'm finding that this change has placed a limit on the Wiki pages. For instance, if I go in and make an edit to https://skies-of-glass.obsidianportal.com/wiki_pages/red-pool-spells it pops up a little error window when I try to save it saying "Please shorten your text to 21844 characters or less (you are currently using 39087 characters)". Additionally, it won't let me add new text to the page, only delete text out of it. I've tried this on numerous pages with identical results - https://skies-of-glass.obsidianportal.com/wiki_pages/green-pool-spells, https://skies-of-glass.obsidianportal.com/wiki_pages/white-pool-spells, and https://skies-of-glass.obsidianportal.com/wiki_pages/blue-pool-spells to name a few.
Please let me know if there's any other information you need that might be helpful.
- Planeswalker
I very suddenly have the same problem Planeswalker was having. I can delete text in edit mode but I can't add anything. I'm nowhere near the cap so what's going on?
https://age-of-serpents.obsidianportal.com/wikis/pathfinder-society (711characters--CAN edit).
https://age-of-serpents.obsidianportal.com/wikis/house-rules (9330--CANNOT edit!)
https://age-of-serpents.obsidianportal.com/wiki_pages/over-the-top-action (12,179--CANNOT edit).
This is very disconcerting. I currently have an active campaign, and do a lot of work on myy site.
My pages seem to be capping out at 6468 characters, after which I cannot add anything - only delete from them.
https://ashesandmirrors.obsidianportal.com/wikis/2060s (6460 characters - CAN add characters UP TO 6468)
https://ashesandmirrors.obsidianportal.com/wikis/2040s (3848 characters - CAN add characters)
https://ashesandmirrors.obsidianportal.com/wiki_pages/2030s (11766 characters - CANNOT add characters)
https://ashesandmirrors.obsidianportal.com/wiki_pages/2020s (7575 characters - CANNOT add characters)
This happened rather suddenly. I was creating pages this past Friday with no issue, but today I cannot go above 6468 characters.
*edit*
Fortunately, I'm still putting this campaign together, it's not in progress yet, so my urgency level is a bit lower.
If it is relevant, I do have an ascended membership.
Thanks for any support on this issue,
- Planeswalker
I appreciate you looking into this matter. It appears to be affecting Adventure Logs as well as Wiki pages.
When was the character limitation put in place? I have several examples of both logs and wiki pages that exceed these limitations from years ago through earlier this month.
Thank you,
-zero
I have many pages in my various campaigns that are in excess of 70K characters, and very few with less than 10K. I have not run into a character limit at all prior to this morning. As of right now I can't really edit anything...
- Planeswalker
I also noticed that new adventure log posts don't seem to get the little "view" link anymore in the bottom right hand corner of their boxes on adventure log landing page (https://kapreaswang.obsidianportal.com/adventure-log). This is going to stop my players being able to easily read more than the first paragraph of any session writeups anyways without me doing some kind of clunky workaround.
Hoping these are bugs not features, the speed of support is looking impressive :)
Avandus
https://shadows-over-new-york.obsidianportal.com/characters/douglas-ridgway
Keelah Se'lai,
Keryth
"Shadows Over New York":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shadows-over-new-york
"2013 Campaign of The Year":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/2013-coty-shadows-over-new-york/
"Campaign of the Month July 2013":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/shadows-over-new-york-julys-campaign-of-the-month/
http://geeks-distributed.obsidianportal.com/adventure-log
Please advise.
With thanks in advance.
Still learning,
Robert
thanks for the fix
Thanks a bunch for looking into this for us. Your prompt investigation is really appreciated.
Thank you for resolving the issue!
Still learning,
Robert
- Planeswalker