Longer Entry Subject Line

[eosrose]

Title:
Longer Entry Subject Line

Area:
entries

Summary:
I request a higher character limit for the subject line of posts.

Description:
One of my biggest pet peeves in writing up posts is the 100-character limit of subject lines. I tend to add a lot of details to my entry subject lines when posting my creative works, since that makes my journal more easily scannable and the memories feature more useful. Unfortunately the 100-character limit doesn't always suffice, thus forcing me to abbreviate and leave out information.

Please, can we increase the character limit to 200 or thereabouts?

There would be some possible drawbacks that deserve acknowledgement:
- Some journal layouts might look odd with the longer subject lines. Of course, people don't have to write longer subjects, if they don't want to.
- A subject line of more than 100-characters might interfere with crossposting. A possible solution might be to build a cut-off point into the crossposting feature and just add something like "[...]" at the end of subject when a cut-off occurs to indicate that the original post had a longer subject.

If we can have longer entries and longer comments, I don't see why we can't have a longer subject line. :)

Poll #7086 Longer Entry Subject Line

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 74

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Should be implemented as-is.
29 (39.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
9 (12.2%)

(I have no opinion)
36 (48.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[matgb]

A few of the blogs I sub feeds for sometimes go over the char limit, and it's normally because the writer really needed a sub editor.

Having looked at your journal I can see what you mean about how you do it, and you do it well, so can see why it'd be good for you, but I think you're an edge case.

Generally, usability shows that shorter headlines are better, and given Fey's comment about the workload, my "don't care but don't want" is a bit hardened.