Post_excerpt_maxlength for pinned posts?

[Yatima (Yatima Kagurazaka)]

No matter what I set post_excerpt_maxlength to, the excerpt is always approx. 200 characters.
Not only Japanese, but also English.

Discourse v2.3.0.beta11 +34

[Chaboi_3000]

I think you’re confusing things here. Post excerpts for pinned posts has a set value of 220. It cannot be configured via the site settings. I’ve recategorized the topic to support because this is not a bug.

Improving pinned topic excerpts

I noticed that there was a SiteSetting.post_excerpt_maxlength setting. Which I assume is this: [image] I was hoping to change the length of a pinned topic/post excerpt. Upon digging into the code, I noticed this: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/44e58fa3668a2e8f939286094d2b7c415d5d685e/app/models/post.rb [image] It appears 220 is being used for a (pinned) topic excerpt. I was wondering what the SiteSetting.post_excerpt_maxlength setting did, and if the pinned topic excerpt leng…

[Yatima (Yatima Kagurazaka)]

Thanks for your explaining!