I have a user that asked to up the character limit for his Bio beyond 3000 characters. (About Me/ Bio). I couldn’t find a setting to change that value. Is that exposed anywhere?

Looks to me like it’s hard coded at 3000: app/models/user_profile.rb main # frozen_string_literal: true class UserProfile < ActiveRecord::Base BAKED_VERSION = 1 belongs_to :user, inverse_of: :user_profile …

Perhaps add a new site setting? Seems reasonable to me.

This is the first request ever that I can remember to increase the bio character limit. Have they considered inserting a link to a topic on the forum that expands on things, instead?

It’s a ‘magic number’ that’s hard coded in the code base. I don’t fully understand why changing the limit will break formatting, but the typical behavior would be expose variables like this to the user to limit/expand as desired. I understand there are workarounds, I’m already using all of those, …

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) November 17, 2020, 8:12pm 4

I think that it’ll break the formatting. You might check out the featured topic profile setting.

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