# Journal editing - maximum entry length changed? **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [July 14, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/journal-editing-maximum-entry-length-changed/14422 "2020-07-14T23:10:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cooperj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cooperj/32/100_2.png) [@cooperj](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cooperj)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/journal-editing-maximum-entry-length-changed/14422/1 "2020-07-14T23:10:08Z")
**Platform** (Android, iOS, Website): Website **App version number** , if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings): **Browser** , if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Chrome and Firefox tested **URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages**: [https://inaturalist.nz/journal/cooperj/35101-identifying-fungi-in-new-zealand](https://inaturalist.nz/journal/cooperj/35101-identifying-fungi-in-new-zealand) **Screenshots of what you are seeing** (instructions for taking a screenshot on computers and mobile devices: [https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/](https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/)): ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/c/c547a41c643080a8541b0bc3b9fa7c7daa1099a1.png) **Description of problem** (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.): I had a journal entry that was around 13,000 characteres long including some simple html formatting. It has been there for a while. Today I tried to edit a paragraph to include some additional text and found that I couldn’t. In edit mode it was not possible to change anything. So I cut and paste the text into notepad, made my changes, and pasted it back. Every time I try that the text is truncated to 5010 characters. The behaviour has changed recently. Many of my posts are over 5,000 characters and it seems if I try to edit any of them I will lose them. What is going on? Step 1: Go to my journal page and select an entry Step 2: Try to edit the content over 5,000 chars as simple text - and can’t Step 3: Save the content, or paste longer content and it is truncated. Save content Now lost most of original post. ---
**Author:** ![thomaseverest](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thomaseverest/32/63220_2.png) [@thomaseverest](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thomaseverest)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/journal-editing-maximum-entry-length-changed/14422/2 "2020-07-14T23:18:38Z")
This was unintentional and will be remedied. [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/remove-new-5000-character-limit-for-journal-posts/14405](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/remove-new-5000-character-limit-for-journal-posts/14405) ---
**Author:** ![cooperj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cooperj/32/100_2.png) [@cooperj](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cooperj)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/journal-editing-maximum-entry-length-changed/14422/3 "2020-07-14T23:56:11Z")
Thanks! I’m surprised I didn’t spot the earlier post. Apologies for duplication. ---
**Author:** ![cooperj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cooperj/32/100_2.png) [@cooperj](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cooperj)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/journal-editing-maximum-entry-length-changed/14422/4 "2020-07-15T00:00:22Z")
OK - I missed it because that refers to comments on observations which I assumed was a different category of object, and rarely requiring \> 5000 characters, unlike journal posts. I’m guessing this this related to the recent introduction of the in-line formatting tool, which is great, and should be added to the journal entry editor. ---
**Author:** ![thomaseverest](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thomaseverest/32/63220_2.png) [@thomaseverest](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thomaseverest)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 12:51am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/journal-editing-maximum-entry-length-changed/14422/5 "2020-07-15T00:51:48Z")
You might be referring to [this post](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/allow-comments-exceeding-5000-characters-to-be-edited-rather-than-get-immediately-deleted/10422). There’s also this [one too](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/flag-comments-lose-text-after-submission-when-input-exceeds-5000-characters/14329). But yeah probably related to the new update (which was a very nice surprise). ---
**Author:** ![bouteloua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bouteloua/32/1180_2.png) [@bouteloua](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bouteloua)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/journal-editing-maximum-entry-length-changed/14422/6 "2020-09-22T22:21:35Z")