# Extending character limit beyond 99000 **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [March 5, 2020, 7:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/extending-character-limit-beyond-99000/143381 "2020-03-05T07:59:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 9:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/extending-character-limit-beyond-99000/143381/2 "2020-03-05T09:40:55Z")
The largest consequence of raising this too high is that cooking markdown can get pretty expensive on enormous documents. The limit is kind of arbitrary, I do not think anything would explode in fire if you raised it to 200k or 300k in a very controlled environment. The only clean way to override this line: [discourse/config/site\_settings.yml at 3610709b6cf859f674a02394f1430bb51f68d117 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/3610709b6cf859f674a02394f1430bb51f68d117/config/site_settings.yml#L636-L636) is in a custom plugin. The upside is that the plugin is kind of trivial. I have seen requests once or twice to raise our “max” limit, but it certainly is not a common request. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/extending-character-limit-beyond-99000/143381)._