# How to increase tag description length?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [October 10, 2022, 9:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-increase-tag-description-length/241463 "2022-10-10T09:32:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 9:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-increase-tag-description-length/241463/1 "2022-10-10T09:32:58Z")

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Is it possible to increase this from 280 characters?

Coded as:

`validates :description, length: { maximum: 280 }`

here:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/models/tag.rb](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/models/tag.rb)

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