The limitations on the lengths of various input fields are as follows:
* Comments: 9,000 bytes or 4,300 characters
* Comment Subjects: 100 characters
* Custom Friends Group Names: 30 characters
* Entries: 65,535 bytes or characters
* Entry Properties (Currents): 255 bytes or 100 characters
* Entry Subjects: 255 bytes or 100 characters
* Memory Keywords: 40 characters
* Memory Titles: 80 characters
* Poll Names: 1000 characters
* Poll Questions: 1000 characters, maximum of 255 questions
* Poll Radio and Check Box Options: 500 characters, maximum of 255 options
* Poll Text Entry Responses: 255 characters
* User Picture Keywords: 40 characters, 5 per userpic
* User Picture Comments: 120 characters
Usernames are limited to 15 characters, and the characters that are allowed in usernames are a-z, 0-9, and the underscore (_). Capitalized letters and the hyphen (-) will be converted to lowercase and the underscore, respectively. Passwords are limited to 30 characters.
Note that the web client (
http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml) limits the entry properties so that "Current Mood" can only hold 30 characters and "Current Music" can only hold 60 characters. However, if you use a downloaded client that does not limit the length of these properties, you can fill in the entire 255 bytes or 100 characters. See
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=158 for information on downloading a client.
These limitations relate specifically to the Edit Personal Information page (
http://www.livejournal.com/editinfo.bml):
* Name: 50 characters
* E-mail: 50 characters
* Webpage URL: 255 bytes
* Webpage Name: 255 bytes
* AOL IM: 28 characters
* ICQ #: 12 characters (standard)
* Yahoo! ID: 33 characters (standard)
* MSN Messenger: 60 characters
* Jabber Address: 60 characters
* City: 60 characters
* State/Province/Territory: 50 characters
* About You: 65,535 bytes or characters
* Journal Title and Subtitle: 80 characters each
* Friends Page Title: 80 characters
Friends lists are limited as described in
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=61.
Interests are limited as described in
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=60.
User pictures are limited as described in
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=1.
To-do list items are limited as described in
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=86.
Phone posts and transcriptions are limited as described in
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=183.
Link Lists are limited as described in
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=169.
The number of memories and memory keywords that you can have is unlimited. For more information on memories, please see
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=47.
If you have a Paid Account, the number of mood themes you can create is unlimited. For more information on mood themes, please see
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=64.
The maximum number of custom friends groups you can have is 30. For more information on custom friends groups, please see
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=102.
The maximum number of S2 styles you can have is 10. For more information on creating an S2 style, please see
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=177.
The maximum number of comments that can be posted on any given entry is 5,000.
Only the 75 most recent entries of your journal will display in the Most Recent view. You can change how many of those 75 display on a single page through the customization interface, if you are using S2 (
http://www.livejournal.com/customize/), or with the OPT_ITEMS override, if you are using S1 (
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=13). However, if you attempt to navigate back further than 75 entries, your journal will begin to use the Day view.
The Month View (
http://www.livejournal.com/users/exampleusername/2002/09/) is limited to showing the first 2,000 entries made during that month. To access subsequent entries, navigate to individual Day Views, like the one linked to below.
The Day View (
http://www.livejournal.com/users/exampleusername/2002/09/05/) is limited to showing the first 200 entries made during that day. To access subsequent entries, use the "Previous" and "Next" arrow buttons found on individual entry pages.
You can only view the 50 most recent entries in a journal when you choose to edit from the recent entries at
http://www.livejournal.com/editjournal.bml as described at
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=2.
Additionally, there are limits imposed upon the earliest and latest dates that you can post on LiveJournal, using the "Backdate Entry" option (
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=91). The earliest date posts are allowed to have is 1970-01-01, and the latest date is 2037-12-31.
For a moderated community, there may only be a maximum of 50 posts waiting for approval at any one time. Additional posts will cause an error message to be displayed to the user attempting to post indicating that the queue is full. Also, each user may only have one entry waiting for approval in any particular moderated community. Additional posts to a community from a user who already has a pending entry for that community will cause the error message "Maximum queued posts for this community+poster combination reached" to be displayed to that user when posting. Information about community moderation can be found here:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=157).
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