Increase character limit for toots from 500 to xxxx

[stoccafisso]

Hi all

The default character limit for new toots is 500. But I would like to increase that limit for my special instance.

How can I do this? And hopefully make it a permanent change, not overwritten by updates?

Any help?

[nebulon]

@stoccafisso do you have a link on how to do this from the upstream docs? Then we can see what adjustments, if possible, we can do on the package side.

[stoccafisso]

Hi @nebulon

I am not sure this is directly from upstream docs, but here is one suggestion:

https://draklyckan.se/2021/11/how-to-increase-the-character-limit-for-toots-in-mastodon/

The above article mention these sources:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12265
https://github.com/kamysheblid/mastodon_max_characters
https://old.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/hozl70/
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/

[nebulon]

@stoccafisso hm looks like some code patches are required or at least add some ruby files. This won't work with the code residing in a read-only fs section on Cloudron and I don't think it makes sense to allow such patching, as it makes it very hard later to ensure correct updates.

In your case I guess you could fork the mastodon app package and create your own with that patchset.

[stoccafisso]

@nebulon Thank you for having a look at it.

@nebulon said in Increase character limit for toots from 500 to xxxx:

In your case I guess you could fork the mastodon app package and create your own with that patchset.

Holy moly, unknown territory

[girish]

@stoccafisso patches to make the character limit customizable were rejected upstream . see https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/5697#issuecomment-345078582 for upstream author's comment .

[robi]

does mastodon support threads yet?