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I have created this post and even its previewing it does not seem to work when saved. Can someone help?

http://pastebin.com/2WS4aNKB

you know what might be the issue here?

My first idea would be that the post simply is too long, breaking bbcode limits in terms of size.
I've experienced this in several threads (mostly those with huge tables, i.e. Mitchells collection or the known alts thread).

Have you tried splitting the post into parts and looking for mistakes in those parts each (I've skimmed it briefly, didn't find any).
If all parts are working, I'd say it's safe to asume the size is the problem, hence my suggestion would be cutting down on some unneeded parts.

or make two posts. right?

Yep, that would be another option, moving parts of the post from OP into the first reply to the topic, if you can't just drop them.
(Still while asuming the size is the only problem here.)

I may be wrong, but please check:

Line 441 ends a good table.
Line 469 contains TR and then other table parts, but no table has started.

You're right, but that didn't fix the post either. You can try yourself, maybe you find a working solution.

@OP: If you try to post the whole thing, and then edit it afterwards, you will see that it get's cut off after the following text:
"YΠOΛOΓIΣTIKH EΠIΣTHMH]"

Another thing I've noticed is, that you're pretty "wasteful" in terms of lines with your BBCode, trying to compress would be another possible solution.

seems to work fine here... no stray BBcode tags when I previewed it.

I did a test and for me it works.
I made a fixed version here http://pastebin.com/umU2XDSP


You made me think of something: I use Chrome browser. Maybe some other browser is more memory limited?

Try posting it, pre viewing works fine here aswell, but once you post the whole thing, you get an INVALID BBCODE error.

Same goes for you, can you post the whole thing in that case, please?

yep. got that error. weird stuff.  ???

I really didn't expect that preview works and post doesn't...

So my guess would be that some of this post is getting cut off due to posting character limits and its breaking the code wherever its cutting it off at and messing up the table(s), there were some table issues in the post itself as well but after clearing them up, it still doesn't post unless you break it into 2 posts... I started the 2nd post near where the post was cutting off when re-editing the failed post.

1st post:
http://pastebin.com/AyDesF9c

2nd post:
http://pastebin.com/2PNAyGQt

Yeah, that's what it is. Posts over 65535 bytes get cut off at 65535 bytes. If that makes the BBcode invalid in certain ways, then you get the INVALID BBCODE error.

Also, note that a byte is different from a character. Because SMF stores "special" characters in a particularly space-inefficient way, each Russian character uses about 6 bytes, and each line break also uses 6 bytes.

Which would bring me back to something I've suggested earlier.

Although I don't think you would be abled to 'safe enough space' that way, in order to compress everything into a single post.