I've tried to edit the main post of The Giant List of Usability and Random Improvement 2.0 a few times over the last ~15 hours and the edits just don't go through. The post is currently at 29k characters.

As quoted in this post, forum posts are now limited to 40k characters. Mine is only 3/4 of that and I'm not getting any error messages. I click the edit button (once I've made the edits) and nothing happens.

I'd prefer not to have to separate the list again, but I will if I have to. Still, the site should be able to handle what its limits are set to.

(Side note: previews haven't worked for this post in a long time, but that's not such a problem, although it does cause the page to hang and I have to close it and sometimes lose my edits when I click the button by accident.)

(Second side note: I'm not sure if this limit is actually listed in the forum rules or anywhere useful like that. I had to remember where that quote was.)

We've also made changes to the database to support longer forum posts, to prevent further issues with posts getting cut off. Forum posts now have a character limit of 40,000 characters per post. Furthermore, it will now inform you if you surpass this limit when creating a new topic, posting a new reply, and editing an existing post.

My apologies if I sounded tetchy or like I was trying to convince you of anything! :o I was just trying to be clear without being verbose, as I know that's a problem I have.

Thanks for looking into this. c:

I was only adding this line: "3. Add a like button for HAs to user profiles"

I can see that your edit has gone through!

However, I'm still having the same problem from my end - whenever I hit the blue 'Edit Post' button to save my changes, nothing happens on my end, and the changes don't take. I can leave the page open for ages or click several times and nothing happens. (I added the rest of my edits from this post, for reference)

I've had no problems editing shorter posts and do so frequently.

I'll be out for the next 3 days, so no rush. xD

Thanks for getting back to me! No worries at all about the wait (I know there are much bigger things to worry about). I use Chrome on Win10.

-- I've been trying sporadically over the last few weeks and edits to the first post never worked, but I just tried again after getting your ping and the edits went through! Nothing I've done has changed, so I don't know why it wasn't working and suddenly did. Unless it could have been my terrible internet connection? We just had a new line laid a few days ago as ours had water in it and was barely working, although I tried editing it over mobile internet as well and that didn't work either. /jumps for joy /sorry for rambling; I'm super sick and there's no need to reply to my random thoughts

I'll let you know if the problem starts happening again, I guess. >.<

Well, thanks for your attempts to work out what was going on! I did initially consider it being my internet connection but I discounted that after trying via mobile internet as well. :/

I'll let you know if I have any further issues. c: Thanks!

Oh, I actually never got it to work again after that, so I decided to split the list up into three separate posts. I'd classify this as still broken (maybe somehow just for me), but I'm okay with the workaround. Feel free to close it up.