Having not heard any news after submitting a couple of reports about errors saving changes to the TEA thread's OP, I didn't some debugging on my own and discovered that the post reaches its size limit in 51 more characters.ez24 ran into the same OP size issues here:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/other-blog-specific/dd/
Wisely he started another thread and reserved the first 3 posts so to allow room for growth.
Maybe you can link to a later reply of yours and place additional info there.....oh hang on, you already have the 2nd post to grow into.
Yep, have a little room to grow. Never ran into the post length limit before.Yep but that's not to say one of the mods can't help, I dunno.
Wonder if it's possible to insert another blank post for you or might that break the forum linking ?I was working with ez24 when that problem came up.
Originally, the post limit was 20kB, but Dave upped it to 50kB for the resources thread. Then, as the content grew beyond that, I made the suggestion he start a new thread and reserve the first few posts for future expansion. The spreadsheet I put together to help organise the data and generate the code was changed to break up the output so it could be pasted across 3 tables.
In that case, the new thread made sense as the only thing that was "lost" were the posts that provided the input up until that point. Those posts are still available in the original thread, archived as it were.
However, such an approach would not work too well for this thread as value content lies all through it.
Adding a new post at the beginning would, in theory, be possible - BUT the potential for stuffing things up would be extremely high, unless you had someone with intimate knowledge of the database architecture. This is not something I would advocate.
My suggestion would be:
1. to continue with the second post while there is room and
2. consider breaking out any of the material that has the potential to demand more and more bytes into a separate thread, where the first 10 or 20 posts have been reserved for expansion. Of course, any such material would have high visibility, descriptive links in the current locations so people could jump there within minimum effort.
Having not heard any news after submitting a couple of reports about errors saving changes to the TEA thread's OP, I didn't some debugging on my own and discovered that the post reaches its size limit in 51 more characters.ez24 ran into the same OP size issues here:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/other-blog-specific/dd/
Wisely he started another thread and reserved the first 3 posts so to allow room for growth.
Maybe you can link to a later reply of yours and place additional info there.....oh hang on, you already have the 2nd post to grow into.
Yep, have a little room to grow. Never ran into the post length limit before.Yep but that's not to say one of the mods can't help, I dunno.
Wonder if it's possible to insert another blank post for you or might that break the forum linking ?I was working with ez24 when that problem came up.
Originally, the post limit was 20kB, but Dave upped it to 50kB for the resources thread. Then, as the content grew beyond that, I made the suggestion he start a new thread and reserve the first few posts for future expansion. The spreadsheet I put together to help organise the data and generate the code was changed to break up the output so it could be pasted across 3 tables.
In that case, the new thread made sense as the only thing that was "lost" were the posts that provided the input up until that point. Those posts are still available in the original thread, archived as it were.
However, such an approach would not work too well for this thread as value content lies all through it.
Adding a new post at the beginning would, in theory, be possible - BUT the potential for stuffing things up would be extremely high, unless you had someone with intimate knowledge of the database architecture. This is not something I would advocate.
My suggestion would be:
1. to continue with the second post while there is room and
2. consider breaking out any of the material that has the potential to demand more and more bytes into a separate thread, where the first 10 or 20 posts have been reserved for expansion. Of course, any such material would have high visibility, descriptive links in the current locations so people could jump there within minimum effort.
I have a question about this:
Why is it possible for everyone to delete one of its own messages in the middle of a thread, but the reverse is hard to do?
I mean, if someone is deleting one of his messages, the message count decreases. I saw that happen here in the TEA thread
one or two times. But this means also, that every single message should have an individual message ID which is independent from the order. And even the number of the message which can be seen in the URL of a message is just a number.
What I'm trying to say: Why shouldn't it be possible to add a new message regularly to the TEA thread as a placeholder and the admins just change the place in the chain of the messages in the thread? With this, you can make sure, that the message number (URL) is uniqe, a unique message ID has been created anyway (which is internal and unseen) and I think, nobody is really caring if the order of the messages at the beginning of the thread goes like 1 - 55230 - 55231 - 55232 - 2 - 3 - ....
Perhaps I'm looking at this in a naive way, but I would really appreciate an explanation.
Thanks.
Queueing for supermarket here again today. The locusts have eaten all the good stuff again
I dropped a reply earlier but is is the issue of how the database is set up. Base thread followed by a sequential list of posts. You would need to change every post count after it and risk breaking the thread if it wen wrong.
Queueing for supermarket here again today. The locusts have eaten all the good stuff againMy local grocery store is limiting occupancy to 140 customers maximum at a time. But I don't know if that's causing a queue outside the store since I go during the old farts hour from 6 AM to 7 AM.
Queueing for supermarket here again today. The locusts have eaten all the good stuff again
Try the local small delicatessen-like stores. The Polish ones around here are good. The "famous" Indian one is also good, but the aisles are cozy at the best of times
Queueing for supermarket here again today. The locusts have eaten all the good stuff again
My local grocery store is limiting occupancy to 140 customers maximum at a time. But I don't know if that's causing a queue outside the store since I go during the old farts hour from 6 AM to 7 AM.
I think VK5RC's idea of finding the owner of the next post and expanding there is a good stopgap. Pretty sure the admins could change ownership of an individual post without breaking things.Queueing for supermarket here again today. The locusts have eaten all the good stuff againMy local grocery store is limiting occupancy to 140 customers maximum at a time. But I don't know if that's causing a queue outside the store since I go during the old farts hour from 6 AM to 7 AM.
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... Worried about getting trampled by the wrinklies ...I resemble that remark! Beware, what we lack in youth we make up for in subterfuge.
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and speed.
... Worried about getting trampled by the wrinklies ...I resemble that remark! Beware, what we lack in youth we make up for in subterfuge.
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and speed.
... which often includes knowing when to keep your trap shut.