Trip Report Word Count

[Eric in East County]

What is the maximum number of words that can now be included in a trip report?

Eric & Pat

 

[crescent-zephyr]

There is a limit?

 

[SarahZ]

I always hit the photo limit long before any word limit, if there is one. I solve the problem by breaking my trip report into multiple posts (within the same thread)

I write the report in a Word document first. That way, I don't have to worry about losing anything if the upload fails. I copy/paste each "chunk", add the accompanying photos, and then submit.

 

[BoulderCO]

Now I'm kind of torn - between looking at the travelogue section or avoiding it ;>)

 

[bratkinson]

I don't know about the current website software, but a couple of times, when I was writing a much longer than normal response, I clicked 'post reply' and it came back and indicated it was too big...maybe it was 2000 words or something like that.

There's two ways to work around it.

Plan A: What I did was to immediately highlight everything I had written and do <cntl>C (windows) to copy it into the clipboard. I then opened up my word processor and did <cntl>V to paste it in there. I then did a quick 'save as' to make sure I didn't lose anything. Then it was back to the still-open post (leaving the word processor open just in case) to figure where the halfway mark would be, highlight from that point to the end, and do <cntl>X to cut it out. NOW click 'Post reply'. Then start a new reply, and the part you had just cut out, use <cntl>V to paste it in the new post, and post it.

Plan B: write the entire thing in your word processor, save it, then sign on the this site and first highlight and <cntl>C copy the top half, <cntl>V paste it into the first reply. Back in the word processor, highlight the 2nd half, copy it, paste it and post it. Done.

For what it's worth, I wrote an extremely lengthy response 2 weeks ago on another RR oriented web site comparing Lightroom Classic 2020 and Photoshop Elements 15 essential edits I use for slides and pictures. I figured I had to break it into 5 or 6 different posts to get it all in using about a page and a half as a 'cut point'. (I just checked, it was 14 typewritten single spaced pages in my word processor) Each break was conveniently where I could insert up to 3 images (their image max per post). I actually wrote and repeatedly revised that post over a period of about 2 weeks in my word processor while processing over 600 'family' slides for a friend. When I was done writing, I inserted a short dashed line with a notation which two before & after pictures I wanted to insert. Of course, I had copies of each of the to-be-inserted images in a temp folder in My Documents so I didn't have to waste time searching for them. When it was time to post my epistle, I simply copied and pasted one chunk at a time, added the two pictures, and posted. At last check, the thread had over 700 views.

 

[Eric in East County]

We just attempted to post a trip report from a 2005 trip and got the message:

Oops! We ran into some problems. Please enter a message with no more than 10000 characters.

I guess we'll have to break up our report into multiple parts until the website software is changed.

Eric & Pat

 

[the_traveler]

That’s what I have done in the past.

if I have a really long trip report, I may post in 2 or 3 segments. Or another possibility is to post (say) day 1-3, then day 4-7, then day 9-11, etc...

 

[Eric in East County]

We posted it in 4 segments and got it all in. It's from a 2005 trip which we'd never shared on AU. (Check it out.)