I am updating a specific topic via the API. Unfortunately I ran into the following error a few times: {"errors":["Body is limited to X characters; you entered Y."]} The problem is that I don’t want to increase max post length in the admin settings, because this would make this the new post length …

Ok, so basically this is not possible with discourse unless one writes a plugin. Got it. This just means I will have to dump this plugin list somewhere else and not in discourse. Problem solved. People will be able to click on an external link instead…

[image] K. C. Tessarek: Is there any chance that one could set the max post length for a specific topic (or a user/token who is sending the body of the topic)? You could create a plugin that would let you set the max post length to what you want for the one topic (or user?) and then apply a d…

[image] Jay Pfaffman: You could create a plugin I have no idea how to do that. [image] Jay Pfaffman: Why not just increase the post length for all posts? The topic that I am editing via the API is uncharacteristically long for a post. It’s a list of plugins in a table format with name…

[image] K. C. Tessarek: Nobody should ever write such a long post manually Has someone ever wrote as long post ever? I’m just meaning is increased max long real threat?

Is there a way to increase "max post length" for a specific topic?

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thoka (Thomas Kalka) March 13, 2023, 3:17am 4

If you don’t want to follow the hard way of learning it yourself, you could write a specification, gather funds and announce it on Marketplace.

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Is there a way to increase "max post length" for a specific topic?

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