How to increase the number of characters in the category name (length of the category name)

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The discussion revolves around increasing the character limit for category names in Discourse. hoangviet believes long category names are important for personalization, but couldn’t find a solution on meta.discourse.org. NateDhaliwal suggests that increasing the limit may not be possible, but provides links to related posts on meta.discourse.org for reference. In contrast, Jagster argues that long category names can be problematic, making navigation difficult, especially on mobile devices, and suggests reviewing the policy instead. CocoQuark requests examples of long category names that are needed, to better understand the issue.

From a marketing and psychology perspective, we see that our community needs to increase the number of characters in the category name (length of the category name).

We checked on meta.discourse.org, but there is no answer to do this.

Long category names are important because they are personal, which is very important in the current era of content consumption.

We are looking forward to solutions and ways of doing it from Discourse experts

Thank you very much

AFAIK you cannot increase it, but this post may help:

You may also want to take a look at this post:

Actully totally opposite. And then the solution would be review your policy. Plus such very long category names has tendency break ayout, plus those make navigation very difficult, specially in mobiles.

Can you give examples of long category names you think you need? Real-life or hypothetically.