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  1. In the add story part, which works well since it's separate from tags. Edit details has a concatenated field, something like: <input type="text" name="sdescrip" value="$concatenated_descrip_and_tags_string" maxlength="255"> After which forcing the field value to something longer than 255 is still accepted on post. It's this maxlength that could be problematic for editing tags/description in longer or more involved fics. See the story Depravity in http://games.adult-fanfiction.org/main.php?list=1803for exceeding 255. I'm not very good at describing this, haha.
  2. Would be easy if it did, but I edited my description to 316 characters last night. EDIT: To clarify, I didn't muck around with the maxlength in add, so if there are restrictions on that behind the scenes then two thumbs up. But on edit, my original description was 290-something characters (I think), exceeding maxlength, so that's affected by the suggestion to increase it here. But I forced in the new tags and description updates, and it successfully saved with 316 characters (154 summary sentences and the rest tags, so I follow the spirit of the add function if not the edit box). So 255 doesn't appear to be a hard limit for edits. Still, I haven't tested the boundaries of that and don't intend to; hopefully it does truncate before it would become a visual issue in the archive if someone did more. Regardless, I think 255 should be higher because tags. I'm dodging specifics on exactly what I did because I don't want to encourage everyone and their grandmother to try it out, but if you want a step by step, I can try Skype or something.
  3. Adding a new story has the summary box with maxlength 240 plus multi select to append relevant tags. Editing a description (to, for example, append new tags) has the combined summary+tag field limited to 255, resulting in being unable to update without removing portions of summary (one of my stories has, for example, 130ish chars of tags). When I say "unable", I mean that bypassing maxlength in edit form submission (attribute deletion on browser end etc) allowed the tags to be edited without impact to summary sentences, so this appears to be a purely front end restriction. Not sure what my exact suggestion is if it's being stored as one string in the db. Obviously storage changes are a mess; ideally the description could be split to two boxes with individual limits to allow 'normal' tag modification in summary edits, but that could potentially be a not exactly minor change if it's structured as I'm assuming, so I guess I'm just suggesting that you up the maxlength attribute on the edit page and consider a split field in future as a more sweeping solution. Also kind of curious what would happen if someone deleted the maxlength attribute and really went to town on that box. I don't plan to try it. Unless I'm completely mistaken and still half-asleep, which is totally possible. In which case carry on.
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