Market: too long description (character count 10,000/32,000)

[Joshua Graham]

I keep getting an error that my description is too long (too long description)

But the character count is about 10,000 out of 32,000 allowed in visual mode.  The text I wanted to add might have increased it to 11,000-12,000 characters

It reverts to the last saved draft with this text.   But one time I saw my draft wiped out with this error message.   So now I just frequently save the changes to make sure they are accepted.

Does the character count consider HTML code? HTML significantly adds to the character count. 

[Dominik Egert]

Joshua Graham:

I keep getting an error that my description is too long (too long description)

But the character count is about 10,000 out of 32,000 allowed in visual mode.  The text I wanted to add might have increased it to 11,000-12,000 characters

It reverts to the last saved draft with this text.   But one time I saw my draft wiped out with this error message.   So now I just frequently save the changes to make sure they are accepted.

Does the character count consider HTML code? HTML significantly adds to the character count. 

As far as I am aware, it is even worse than counting html tags. It's a byte limit, so if you happen to use a wide character set, your count doubles, as the function seems to only check the actual byte size.

[Fernando Carreiro]

Joshua Graham: I keep getting an error that my description is too long (too long description). But the character count is about 10,000 out of 32,000 allowed in visual mode.  The text I wanted to add might have increased it to 11,000-12,000 characters. It reverts to the last saved draft with this text.   But one time I saw my draft wiped out with this error message.   So now I just frequently save the changes to make sure they are accepted. Does the character count consider HTML code? HTML significantly adds to the character count. 

Create a dedicated blog post for instructions and other extra information. Then in the product description provide a link to the blog post.

Many sellers do that for providing User Manuals, Instructions on how to install products, Instructions on how to to optimisations, etc.

[Joshua Graham]

Ok.  Looks like blog posts are not listed in the user profile or settings page.  If it is, please give a screenshot showing where I would know how to create a blog post from the user's profile.

I had to do a google search, which led me here:  https://www.mql5.com/en/blogs

[Dominik Egert]

Joshua Graham #:

Ok.  Looks like blog posts are not listed in the user profile or settings page.  If it is, please give a screenshot showing where I would know how to create a blog post from the user's profile.

I had to do a google search, which led me here:  https://www.mql5.com/en/blogs

Here you can add a post:

https://www.mql5.com/en/blogs/my/published

[Fernando Carreiro]

Joshua Graham #: Ok.  Looks like blog posts are not listed in the user profile or settings page.  If it is, please give a screenshot showing where I would know how to create a blog post from the user's profile. I had to do a google search, which led me here:  https://www.mql5.com/en/blogs

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