# How to change the max length for direct messages via the flag button

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-max-length-for-direct-messages-via-the-flag-button/63888>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Junho 3, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-max-length-for-direct-messages-via-the-flag-button/63888 "2017-06-03T18:03:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [Julho 30, 2018, 11:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-max-length-for-direct-messages-via-the-flag-button/63888/10 "2018-07-30T23:54:45Z")

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This is a “turn my car into a truck” type of request. It _shouldn’t_ be honored, and if it was, that would indicate the project was mismanaged and therefore doomed.

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