Guess it's time to increase this limit https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum/pull/71
Perhaps I should just revert that, having posts longer than 1000 chars never has caused any issues so far.
Agreed, 1000 chars is way too short, particularly if you have any formatting in the post (especially hyperlinks). I keep banging my head on this.
I understand that a hint is being given to write shorter forum posts, but even my short posts are too long. They typically require 5-10 mins of pointless word-smithery, trying to work out which single words can be deleted without damaging the meaning too much.
I think that even 2000 chars would provide sufficient breathing room for general discussion. (I'd prefer about 5000 chars, in case I need to include code excerpts.)
SQLite does not enforce the length of a VARCHAR. You can declare a VARCHAR(10) and SQLite will be happy to store a 500-million character string there. And it will keep all 500-million characters intact. Your content is never truncated. SQLite understands the column type of "VARCHAR(N)" to be the same as "TEXT", regardless of the value of N.
from (https://www.sqlite.org/faq.html) I think that the content length limit can be lifted or increased. I made the PR to try and help with (https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum/issues/9) but I can see that 1000 is probably not sufficient. I think that the VARCHAR(n) in the SQL file should be changed to match the new 'real' limit in case we switch DBs in future.