# Increase event description limit **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/increase-event-description-limit/397771 **Category:** Feature **Tags:** events **Created:** [March 5, 2026, 8:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/increase-event-description-limit/397771 "2026-03-05T20:00:52Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 6
### Author: ![Lou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lou/32/544605_2.png) [@Lou](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lou) #### Post date: [August 24, 2026, 10:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/increase-event-description-limit/397771/6 "2026-08-24T10:10:04Z")
The main problem for me is that when a user adds an event description, there is a _ **silent failure** _. When description holds \> 1000 characters, the event database record does not seem to be created. The text is still in the topic within the [event] block, but the event itself is not visible anywhere to users. I have to notice this happened and go into the topic post to move the description outside of the event block. I see at [discourse/plugins/discourse-events/app/models/discourse\_post\_event/event.rb at 2ad5c29a2cda0513086295c0601cb7524ad5d87f · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/2ad5c29a2cda0513086295c0601cb7524ad5d87f/plugins/discourse-events/app/models/discourse_post_event/event.rb#L50) the description is validated, and it seems simple enough to update MAX\_DESCRIPTION\_LENGTH, but frankly don’t know ruby/discourse well enough to add a database migration, and don’t want my version to diverge from the standard in any case (though maybe it’s possible to make this migration with a plugin?). It seems like this field could be migrated to TEXT rather than STRING(1000) to eliminate this issue (ref [discourse/plugins/discourse-events/db/migrate/20250616101945\_add\_description\_to\_event.rb at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/plugins/discourse-events/db/migrate/20250616101945_add_description_to_event.rb) ) but I see there are currently 282 pull requests outstanding. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/increase-event-description-limit/397771)._