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Allow customizing the length of registration "why do you want to join?" field #1236

Closed 0xBEEB closed 1 year ago

0xBEEB commented 1 year ago

Pitch

Currently the "Why do you want to join?" field that appears on the main page when approvals are required for registration has a max character limit of 420 characters.

Motivation

This length is prohibitive if you request specific details from those seeking to register. For example, we ask for users to list who they know on the instance, how they want to contribute, and geographic location information.

Perhaps this could be added as an environment configuration similar to length of toot.

dariusk commented 1 year ago

Oh weird that it's limited so much. I'll probably just increase it to 5k characters and not bother with customization.

nileshtrivedi commented 1 year ago

It seems to be defined in a single place and I couldn't find any discussion on justifying this particular length limit in the original commit or issue.

dariusk commented 1 year ago

@nileshtrivedi (this is closed but I "assigned" it to you to keep track for release notes of who fixed it)