New Message: Re: "Invalid Stream" for new story

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Address: http://manila.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$318

By: Matt Deatherage (frontier at gcsf.com)

Hi, Thomas!

I tried from different computers, and restarting didn't help. Some of the browsers hadn't been run on this computer since Jaguar, either. The client seems irrelevant; it's something about the story that does it.

It's over 32K but not 64K; BBEdit lists 42,623 characters. I had the same thoughts as you about story length, but I didn't try making a shorter one.

Why not? I have several people on this particular Manila site signed up to receive new stories in E-mail, and I only get one shot at those: as soon as Manila creates the story, it sends that version of the text to the E-mail subscribers, and never sends any revised versions. That's one reason I've been writing stories in BBEdit; I can edit them after the fact, but E-mail recipients won't know unless they visit the story's URL.

If I could figure out where to turn that off, I suppose I could just not send the story to people, or I could create it with the empty "This text to be added shortly" message, or something. But in the past year, I've had trouble editing some long stories, with Frontier or Manila cutting them off unexpectedly until the fourth or fifth editing try. I don't want to create a new story with a URL that's not going to work at all, or that can only hold 2/3rds of my story.

I seem to be stuck between making a story that may not hold 42KB of text (which seems ridiculous, something /else/ must be wrong), or not making a story at all.