Well/Then

In 2001, Winona Ryder was arrested on shoplifting charges, she was accused of stealing $5000 dollars worth of designer clothes from Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills. This essentially got her blacklisted by Hollywood and she didn't really have a popular acting role until Stranger Things. Winona stood trial in 2002 and made several court appearances, in which she would always be dressed in stunning outfits. Her taste in fashion was so compelling that it earned her a campaign with one of the designers whose merchandise she stole.

Two limits! You can have a maximum of 4,096,000 characters in 1 [one] tumblr post. I would work out how many combinations this is, but 26^6,000 is already considered to be "Infinity" by most calculators, and a program I wrote threw an error code.

26^95,000 is already over 134,000 characters long - which would take 33 different text blocks to convey via tumblr. Whenever somebody says we're running out of posts, don't forget that tumblr is needlessly designed for MASSIVE amounts of information [no matter how detrimental it may be for mobile phones].

Though I'm not certain if that character count includes spaces, unfortunately, as I got that figure by googling "how many letters are in lord of the rings" and came upon a TikTok that counted the number of letter characters in LotR in order to figure out how many Spaghettios cans would be needed to re-write the entire thing, if one were to cut and paste each individual letter from the cans blackmail-letter style.

For those curious, the numbers are 2,261,081 letters in LotR, which calculates out to 8,795 cans of Spaghettios needed, which would cost about $12,225.

So, those are the theoretical limits, yeah. But in practice, the editor is not even close to be optimized to handle these kinds of huge posts: there is a point, far far away from the size of the lord of the rings, that your browser would just crash.

So if you are planning to post long fanfiction, or anything, you better work on something that's optimized for long form (locally, or some alternative to Google docs) and then post in chunks.

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Is when we had fanmail. You could send people fan mail. Different than asks. It had an insanely high character limit and my friends would use it to send each other the entire great gatsby in two fan mail messages.

Because you can't really do that without heavily restricting common use cases too.

Tumblr supports 1000 blocks per post. Every one of those blocks can be an image, a video, a paragraph of text, etc. 1000 paragraphs is a very generous limit, but not crazy: a block can be a single word, etc.

At the same time, a single block of text has a limit of 4096 characters. That's a long-ass paragraph, but nothing crazy, you can get to the limit depending on your writing style.

People reaching one or other limits is a common case . People hit both limits at the same time, maximizing every case? Honestly, that's not something you could to do unless you are specifically doing weird shit on purpose. And if that's the case, you are responsible for your own fallout.

I'm a big proponent of letting people do weird things with websites, but if you are savvy enough to do weird shit, you are on your own. The rail guards are for people doing basic usage of the site. But if you want to get all mad scientist? You have my respect and appreciation, but if stuff blows up in your face it is all on you and it shouldn't be the job of the staff of this site to either handhold you nor set limits on you screwing with your own blog. You are an adult, so you are treated like one.