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There is a feature request to address this: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/allow-comments-exceeding-5000-characters-to-be-edited-rather-than-get-immediately-deleted/10422

Thank you for pointing me to that. Surprised that the issue’s been sitting around since February, but c’est la vie. Cheers.

My understanding is that this was fixed for comments on observations, but remains an issue on flags, journal posts, taxon changes, listed taxa, and other parts of the site which are built on older code. Once you’ve reached 5000 characters on observation comments, it now restricts you from typing mo…

[image] bouteloua: My understanding is that this was fixed for comments on observations, but remains an issue on flags, journal posts, taxon changes, listed taxa, and other parts of the site which are built on older code. Well, that’s unfortunate. I can definitely imagine that a journal post…

The limit is on comments on journal posts, not journal posts themselves.

Unfortunately this is currently wrong. The journal editing form is not allow to enter more than 5000 symbols. But this is strange, because if I manually remove the maxlength=‘5000’ attribute from the area I’m able to add more symbols and they are saved without any problem. And it is possible to hav…

Limit on journal post size was a mistake in my interpretation of what we wanted, so I’ll remove that (plus the bug @kildor noted). Limit on the size of comments has been effect for a long time and won’t change. Preventing people from exceeding the comment size limit before trying to submit the comme…

Flag comments lose text after submission when input exceeds 5000 characters

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Star3 July 13, 2020, 7:02pm 8

Thank you for clearing that up!

Remove new 5000 character limit for journal posts

Topic		Replies	Views
Error on exceeding size of flag entry Feature Requests	8	518	April 6, 2019
Allow comments exceeding 5000 characters to be edited, rather than get immediately deleted Feature Requests	12	1962	December 22, 2020
Remove new 5000 character limit for journal posts Feature Requests web	5	1082	July 14, 2020
Journal editing - maximum entry length changed? Bug Reports	5	582	September 22, 2020
Increase size and character limit of "Flag for Taxon" reason box Feature Requests	19	587	December 6, 2021

Flag comments lose text after submission when input exceeds 5000 characters

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