# Link’s href is cut off after 500 characters

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-s-href-is-cut-off-after-500-characters/44658>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [23.Май.2016 07:53:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-s-href-is-cut-off-after-500-characters/44658 "2016-05-23T07:53:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [23.Май.2016 08:06:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-s-href-is-cut-off-after-500-characters/44658/8 "2016-05-23T08:06:48Z")

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We just don’t support long URLs.

If you want to use URLs with more than 500 characters, then use a URL shortener like @codinghorror suggested.

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