Originally Posted by Ruben
I agree to a point.
But past versions allowed a post that big and now it is a issue.

For many years, nothing was changed with that regard, except your server side database (MySQL) and your scripting language (PHP) versions and their configurations.

For example, within the php config of UBBCentral's server, 65,380 is the char limit for the display of posts (txt blobs), even though a higher number of chars can be stored within the database. an example post within a private forum

Something that I do not believe existed previously, but can be added for a future version, is an "overflow trigger." One that will warn the user of their post being too large. Also adding content-truncation during the post content rebuild process (admin tools)