Did you know? Tumblr DOES have a post length limit. Strangely, though, it’s based on how many blocks of text you have. Supposedly this implies that you can have any length post so long as it’s one block of text? Very strange, will have to investigate further.
Two limits! You can have a maximum of 4,096,000 characters in 1 [one] tumblr post. I would work out how many combinations this is, but 26^6,000 is already considered to be “Infinity” by most calculators, and a program I wrote threw an error code.
26^95,000 is already over 134,000 characters long - which would take 33 different text blocks to convey via tumblr. Whenever somebody says we’re running out of posts, don’t forget that tumblr is needlessly designed for MASSIVE amounts of information [no matter how detrimental it may be for mobile phones].
There are SOME works of fanfiction which are lengthy enough that you couldn’t fit the whole thing into one tumblr post, but this is enough to fit Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy in it about 14 times over.
Don’t hide that in the tags
Okay okay okay, but what about adding to a post with reblogs? That could stack. So if you reblog your OWN post with enough additions, you could just ignore the limits almost entirely!
I looked into this (to the detriment of my own blog) and it seems like if you properly queue more posts than you’re allowed to make in 1 day to post at the exact same time, AND make/reblog posts during that minute timeframe, you can breeze past the post limit by some amount. With proper effort you could probably get up to making >300 posts in a single minute, each of which is at max length. You’d be able to send Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy over 4,200 times by doing this.
Holy Fucking Shit
Oh, and just in case you were curious, if you could only use the characters “1” and “0”, you could use this to transmit data at a speed of 2MB/s. Admittedly only for one minute, and incredibly inefficiently, but surprisingly not terrible.
4,096,000 characters per post
300 posts in 1 minute
1,228,800,000 characters in that 1 minute
20,480,000 characters per second (or bits)
2,560,000 bytes per second (8 bits)
2,500 Kilobytes per second (1024 bytes)
2.44 megabytes per second (1024 Kilobytes)
Doom file size: 2.39 MB.
You can send Doom in under a second using Tumblr.
Of course, you can also be smart and use hexadecimal. Using this, each character can actually represent up to 4 bits of information, meaning you can actually transfer 9.77 MB of information per second using Tumblr and optimal compression techniques. It’d take just over 100 seconds to install Minecraft (1 GB/(586MB/Minute)) via Tumblr.
And I feel weird about posting a paragraph with ten sentences in it
