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Subject: I'm having problems submitting news for my Private Group...

So, I've written out a news post for one of my private groups, but it won't let me post or preview the news article because the Full News Story Text field apparently contains words that are longer than 40 characters.

The problem is that the news story very clearly does not contain any words that are longer than 40 characters. I think I would remember if I used any words longer than 40 characters, as I'd likely have to look them up to spell them and or find their meaning >_>

And it's not like I have any straight up URLs in the post either, I used the hyperlink manager extensively to make the article readable and pretty.

Is this some sort of bug? Are there any other group leaders that have encountered this before? I'd be happy to post the contents of the news post if it helps people to debug what's going on, I decided not to in the OP as it could be misconstrued as advertising for my group.

Thanks for any help provided!

  • 04.03.2012 12:21 PM PDT
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[Edited on 04.03.2012 12:28 PM PDT]

  • 04.03.2012 12:22 PM PDT

@spawn031

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When I make news stories I sometimes come across this as well. I think it's a bug. I usually just open a word processing program (Word, Notepad, MS office etc) and copy/paste it into that document.

If that doesn't work, try pasting and removing extended unicode with this or "parse text" if you have the add on script for that.

[Edited on 04.03.2012 12:26 PM PDT]

  • 04.03.2012 12:25 PM PDT

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I haven't encountered that before...

I might just go test it out and see if I get the same error.

[Edited on 04.03.2012 12:29 PM PDT]

  • 04.03.2012 12:28 PM PDT

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Contact an admin about this....who knows, he may message you back sooner than you think....and message multiples, not just one.

Save your news story until this gets fixed.

  • 04.03.2012 12:41 PM PDT

I figured it out!

Turns out one of the URLs to a picture I was using for the story was fricking 103 characters long, and while the URL as a word never appeared in the Text Field, apparently since it's part of the hyperlink, it counts?

Regardless, as soon as I shrunk that hyperlink down using a Tiny URL, it fixed the problem.

  • 04.03.2012 12:52 PM PDT