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ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser
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Increase title length limit #3321

Open pprw opened 4 years ago

pprw commented 4 years ago

120 characters is really to short for academic content!

rigelk commented 4 years ago

FYI YouTube has a 70 character limit for video titles.

pprw commented 4 years ago

FYI YouTube has a 70 character limit for video titles.

but peertube is better :-)

Joke aside, 70 is maybe good for "normal" videos but if you upload conference recordings for example, titles are often quite long.

Other options could be: 1- allow subtitle 2- allow author metadata field (which prevent for putting it inside the title when it is a conference).

test2a commented 4 years ago

isn't description sufficient? we can already use tags. maybe you can organize by say year month department subject speaker topic

having a bunch of text in the title itself does not make it more searchable than a short title and metadata via tags and description. or you are talking about something else

pprw commented 4 years ago

Sometimes, you don't choose the title yourself. I upload academic conference recordings (you can have a look at my instance : https://videos.ahp-numerique.fr). Academics give long titles and I often have to truncate. I can rephrase but it is not always easy and there is information loss in some cases.

Also, in academic world, author credit is very important (often more than the title: you will watch this video because you know the author whatever the title). If I put author information in tag or description it is not very visible.