The 2000 character limit for private messages is rather contraining. Somebody asked me for JCS advice, which I gladly gave, but I had to split it in to 3 seperate messages since I decided to go into detail on a number of things. For me this worked out to about 2-3 paragraphs per message, which isn't a lot.

Is there any reason for having the limit set so low? And if not, why not increase it to the length a normal forum post is allowed to be (which is something like 40k characters)?

It is possible to set this higher, indeed. I don't have much objections to increasing the limit a bit, but you have to keep in mind that it is close to impossible to check PM's for us and that malicious users could in theory abuse large PM's to fill the database with rubbish, lowering speed and database space left. I do not think this would be a big problem, though. If the other admins agree, I'd suggest increasing it to about 7500/10k characters (max character count for posts is 10k).

I have no objections to raising the limit.

I agree. I feel it should be 10,000 characters. My private messages to users sometimes become long. Being concise takes too much time.

~ Derby

A bit late perhaps, but the limit has been raised to 10.000 characters per PM now, so it's just the same as the character limit for normal posts.

Originally Posted by Stijn

A bit late perhaps, but the limit has been raised to 10.000 characters per PM now, so it's just the same as the character limit for normal posts.

I can finally PM normal posts

Thank you, Stijn!