Member Message limited to 2000 characters????
Submitted: Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 at 20:51
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Member - Roachie (SA)
I'm a bit ticked off!!!
I don't get or send many MM's these days.....but I just rec'd a question from a member and went ahead and typed an in depth (read: "long winded") response to this gentleman.
Got to the end and when I tried to send it, it came back up on my screen in
bright red ink that it was too long.....apparently it must be between 6 and 2000 characters only.
I wasn't about to sit there and count up how many characters I'd typed, so I set about removing a few sentences and paragraphs at a time and trying the SEND button....until I eventually gained the satisfaction of seeing my somewhat abridged message finally disappear into the www abyse....!!!
All the other (free) forums to which I belong, provide me with the ability to send PMs of any length I choose, so what's the go here for crying out loud???
Roachie
Reply By: Member - Mick O (VIC) - Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 at 20:57
Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 at 20:57
I just use the MM to touch base Roachie. Then provide a normal email address for longer or more in depth communications. Features on MM are somewhat limited but it does give you the ability to contact people within the site. Have sometimes found my blog entries disappearing or "not responding" when submiting them after quite a bit of work. That hasn't happened in quite a while thank goodness.
Cheers. Mick
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Reply By: Member - Toyocrusa (NSW) - Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 at 20:58
Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 at 20:58
Ya shoulda just sent it in two parts. Bob.
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Reply By: Robin Miller - Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 at 21:06
Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 at 21:06
Ok thats done it , no point writing about the good features of the Nissan Patrols and running out of text 1/2 way thru.
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Follow Up By: mowing - Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 at 21:40
Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 at 21:40
Its OK Robin, Roachie said limited to 2000 not 20, so you can still write that sentence about the Patrols virtues :)
Mark
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Follow Up By: Robin Miller - Sunday, Aug 30, 2009 at 09:07
Sunday, Aug 30, 2009 at 09:07
Gee you had me worried for a minute Mark , but I think 20 characters is just enough to point to a new high powered server.
www.greatvehicle.com
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Reply By: Trevor R (QLD) - Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 at 21:49
Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 at 21:49
And I thought I could bloody talk.....sheez give the other party a go mate. ;-))
I actually agree it seems a bit pointless having an upper limit on the number of characters in an MM when this is a paid for feature of the site.
Trevor.
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Reply By: Richard Kovac - Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 at 22:26
Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 at 22:26
Bill
It's not much chop MM, I only use it to swear at poeple... LOL..
Cheers
Richard.
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Follow Up By: Best Off Road - Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 at 22:32
Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 at 22:32
He's not a member anymore Rick, so you can't abuse him by MM.
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Follow Up By: Richard Kovac - Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 at 22:34
Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 at 22:34
who?
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Follow Up By: Bonz (Vic) - Sunday, Aug 30, 2009 at 07:59
Sunday, Aug 30, 2009 at 07:59
Play nice you two !
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Reply By: Dave B ( BHQ NSW) - Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 at 23:18
Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 at 23:18
Yeah Roachie, it happened to me quite some time ago.
I got onto David and as far as I can remember, he said he would fix it.
Dave
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Follow Up By: Member - Roachie (SA) - Sunday, Aug 30, 2009 at 09:11
Sunday, Aug 30, 2009 at 09:11
G'day Dave,
Not long now till we'll be up there to catch up with you. I was wondering if you think it would be okay for us to
camp at
Stephens Creek (where they hold the Friday night SS1 of the OBC) on that Friday night? I don't remember there being any gates when we went in there, so I'm assuming it is not private property; or at least if it is, then nobody's going to get too upset if we plonk there for 8 to 10 hours overnight??
To everybody else who has responded above.....thanks for letting me vent my spleen....hahahaha ;-)
Cheers
Roachie
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Reply By: nowimnumberone - Sunday, Aug 30, 2009 at 17:38
Sunday, Aug 30, 2009 at 17:38
you could have just put up a post
lol cheers
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Follow Up By: Member - Roachie (SA) - Sunday, Aug 30, 2009 at 18:25
Sunday, Aug 30, 2009 at 18:25
Yeh, I didn't want to
bore everybody else with my diatribe about the good points about a GU Patrol this fellow was looking at purchasing. He'd asked me what he should look for in a used GU 4.2TDi.
I waxed on (too much) about all sorts of things, without ever realising I was exceeding my allowable MM character alocation......
Roachie
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Reply By: ExplorOz - David & Michelle - Monday, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:56
Monday, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:56
Roachie,
Not that easy to fix that one as the limit of http GET requests is 2048 chars. I wrote this system using GET due to a technical limitation I had at the time. I did just solve the GET/POST thing in some of the
places updates I have installed so may be able to revist this in the future. However having said all this I did not really intend the system to be used for long communications and thought it would be used to pass details and basic requests around so that you can swap email addresses etc.
Anyway when I get a chance I will have a look at the GET/POST length solution and see if I can install it.
David
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Follow Up By: Member - Roachie (SA) - Monday, Aug 31, 2009 at 14:02
Monday, Aug 31, 2009 at 14:02
Thanks David..... I guess I was just venting because I wasn't aware of the limitation of 2000. I notice when I use (for example) ebay, their message system also has a limit to the nunber of characters for things like feedback and messages to buyer/seller. The "good" part about their "system" is that there is a reverse counter, which alerts you to the fact you have "X" number of characters available and then continually counts down to "0" when you have used up your allocation. Maybe this would be a way around it.
I don't mind that there is a limit....but it would be nice to know (without sitting here and counting them) how many I have used or have left etc.
Cheers
Roachie
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Follow Up By: ExplorOz - David & Michelle - Monday, Aug 31, 2009 at 14:47
Monday, Aug 31, 2009 at 14:47
Good idea will look at the reverse counter (I have installed these in other length limited areas so will see what I can install). Thanks DM.
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Follow Up By: ExplorOz - David & Michelle - Wednesday, Sep 02, 2009 at 11:23
Wednesday, Sep 02, 2009 at 11:23
Roachie,
I have just installed a counter to tell you how many chars have been entered. I have also made a few other mods to display the name of the person you are sending the message to in the header. There have also been some other more major updates in the backend but this has nothing to do with how it works to you guys.
Thanks for the feedback
David
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Follow Up By: Member - Roachie (SA) - Wednesday, Sep 02, 2009 at 15:17
Wednesday, Sep 02, 2009 at 15:17
Hmmmm....not sure if I like that term: "updates in the backend"..... makes me tighten-up a certain orofice of my body with anticipation, just like when the doc says 'bend over and relax'.......;-)
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Reply By: ExplorOz - David & Michelle - Monday, Aug 31, 2009 at 14:18
Monday, Aug 31, 2009 at 14:18
Roachie - the difference on here is that Members have a choice of using a range of
services -
Blogs are designed to support more features for longer stories/reviews/help files, photos etc and MM is really only meant to be an offline short message service style of chat/personal detail exchange service, but David seems to hear your feedback regard msg length so maybe that will avoid future hassles.
Michelle
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Reply By: Member - John (Vic) - Monday, Aug 31, 2009 at 14:28
Monday, Aug 31, 2009 at 14:28
Jeez!! Bill you must be bored if thats all you have to whinge about :-))
Maybe go back to work or go wash the truck then you won't have all that time on your hands to write such long messages. :-))
I must say its always good to see David is so receptive to the various feedback provided by the users of the site and willing to try and address the issues to improve the "User Friendliness" of the site.
Well done.
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Follow Up By: Member - Roachie (SA) - Wednesday, Sep 02, 2009 at 15:15
Wednesday, Sep 02, 2009 at 15:15
G'day John,
Yeh, you're right mate....David is very good like that.....always accomodating (
well as much as possible within his constraints of course....).
Roachie
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