Increase event description limit

site-wide only

  • max number of characters in an event description – increase from 1000 to ?? maybe 3000?

I have users who want to put a significant amount of text into the event description. This would be useful if it is desirable that the description be carried into google calendar, for instance, so just putting the text into the topic wouldn’t satisfy that use case.

Based on FEATURE: Add event location/description and "My Events" filter (#746) · discourse/discourse-calendar@bdf8869 · GitHub it looks like this is limited in the database to 1000 characters – is there a reason TEXT isn’t being used instead of STRING(1000)? (more of a database question – I am not familiar with any limitations use of ruby requires)

Can this be made bigger, or unlimited?