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Increase character limit for toots from 500 to xxxx

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    stoccafisso
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    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? 🙂

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    • S 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? 🙂

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      nebulon
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      @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.

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        @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.

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        stoccafisso
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        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/

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          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/

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          @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.

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            @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.

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            @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 🙂

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              @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 🙂

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              girish
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              @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 .

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                does mastodon support threads yet?

                Conscious tech

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