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

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**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 31, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-max-length-for-direct-messages-via-the-flag-button/63888/16 "2018-07-31T01:39:28Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> The longer the message your are typing **the more likely** it is that you want preview, and a full composer and so on. It’s just the way it works.

See above ↑ ↑ ↑

The whole point of the form is to keep it simple and use a short, succinct summary .. not write War and Peace that nobody’s gonna read.

Plus if you _want_ to write War and Peace to someone, exactly nobody is stopping you from doing so – you can initiate a personal message in about 5 different other ways.

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