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I'm trying to ask a question here on the forums and I got this error. The problem is, I don't know by how much I've gone over. So I don't know if I need to delete a couple of characters or half my question?

Apple, I love you but I'm not wild about these forum changes. I perhaps would've prioritized the pasting of code adding in blank lines between every line first before doing a weird tag only forum change. This has been an issue for years. I have to go back and delete all those lines every time I paste a code snippet.

So unfortunately I've just had to post my question to StackOverflow because I do not know how much to reduce the size of my question. Which makes me sad that I can not post it here because the user interface for the editor here does not give any user feedback on the error. Very un-Apple like.

I'd post a screenshot but... how?

Just my feedback. I've been in the Apple ecosystem since the Apple II+. Just want to see you be the best.
First up, I’d appreciate you filing a bug about that error message. I agree that it should be more specific. Please post your bug number, just for the record.

Beyond that, the workaround suggested by that error message seems pretty reasonable: Move any large segments of your question, like code snippets, to text attachments.

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@apple.com"

+1 I just spent a lot of time writing my first answer on these forums to a question only to get the message "The maximum number of characters has been reached. Please refine your answer." when clicking the submit button. How about saying what the character limit is and how much I went over?!? The live preview looks fine and doesn't show anything about the length of the post, which would have been a great place to show a warning. FYI, the error message does not provide any workaround suggestions like moving code to attachments, but I guess I'll try that or maybe post multiple answers ... Since this was posted 10 months ago, it doesn't seem like the bug report helped, but I'll file a new one anyway

My bug number is FB9189559

Since this was posted 10 months ago, it doesn't seem like the bug report helped

Well, Etep never posted their bug number so there’s no guarantee that they actually filed one )-:

My bug number is FB9189559

Thanks!

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"

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