# 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:** ![elijah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elijah/32/104055_2.png) [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)\
**Post date:** [Junho 6, 2017, 8:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-max-length-for-direct-messages-via-the-flag-button/63888/2 "2017-06-06T20:03:44Z")

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The 500 appears to be set here:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/models/post-action-type.js.es6](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/models/post-action-type.js.es6)

It does not look like it is designed to be configurable.

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