# Increasing length of category description on home page

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/increasing-length-of-category-description-on-home-page/150028
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [1 mei 2020 om 06:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/increasing-length-of-category-description-on-home-page/150028 "2020-05-01T06:53:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![cjn34](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cjn34/32/178918_2.png) [@cjn34](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cjn34)
#### Post date: [1 mei 2020 om 06:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/increasing-length-of-category-description-on-home-page/150028/1 "2020-05-01T06:53:32Z")

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> [@On another topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/117/1):
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> (Replace this first paragraph with a brief description of your new category. This guidance will appear in the category selection area, so try to keep it below 200 characters.)

Hello, I would like to allow ~500 characters of category description to appear in the category selection area. Is there a simple way to do this?

Thanks!

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### Author: ![Zup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c37758/32.png) [@Zup](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Zup)
#### Post date: [29 maart 2021 om 09:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/increasing-length-of-category-description-on-home-page/150028/2 "2021-03-29T09:24:26Z")

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i’d also like to know.