Jetée

I believe I've encountered this hindrance but only once, but is the standard limit for total characters to be allowed within a single post universally set at 10,000 characters, or is it even higher at around 12,000 characters? Elsewhere, I also encountered the limit in private messaging, where it stated that the limit was exactly half of what I had originally perceived, at no more than 5,000 characters allowed to be properly sent.

I just wish to know for future reference, and I would also like to know if there was ever an impetus for this limit to be changed at all (or just tell me if it is even possible to increase/reduce the number of type symbols allowed).

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—Mohandas K. Gandhi