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For some value of 'not explode' anyway.



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Don't do that, you know it's not true Not in my case, at least



Obviously I didn't meant for that change to be core. But if the users in need accept that they will get a performance penalty, it might be a possibility, just saying

Bottom line is...



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Quote

In true honesty, I don't see why can't it just be changed to VARCHAR(something)

It already is a VARCHAR, it used to be TINYTEXT but that screwed with performance even worse.



*shrug* I thought I already explained the details here, that's ...



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Thanks!



I haven't tested it yet as it wants a lot of manual edits on my forum and I've been too lazy to do it.



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Nice catch. I'm not sure if the description is "searcheable" but it could really solve the OP's issue



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Quote from: margarett on Today at 08:06:39 AM

@jawad96: that's a 2-lines subject that you will *NOT* be able to achieve...

While not a two-line topic wouldn't this essentially achieve the same result?



http://c...



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I think jawad was suggesting two examples of topics - which MS Word assures me are 97 and 99 characters long respectively.



With the aid of MS Word reality checking I have revised my own desires down from 150; 120 would be beautiful overkill and 100 wou...



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LOL



@jawad96: that's a 2-lines subject that you will *NOT* be able to achieve...



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yep, I did notice. I expected a bit of well deserved basking in the warm afterglow of recreated brilliance. Good to see it.



But it is the guys with the big messy code axes that can despatch an afterglow with the haste of a well streamed demon's lamp-li...



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Quote from: Vince S on Today at 07:05:13 AM

And, from the edge, I would like to lob this grenade back into the middle, read the few posts following this one and see what y'all reckon:

http://ift.tt/12hV0MC...

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Hi Kindred,



It is going to be usually for similar thread names from the Warrior Forum, i.e



[Investors Pay Attention] Real Estate Millionaire Shows You The Secrets To UNLIMITED Cash Buyers!



Clickbank officially recommend us Warrior App Maker! Just One ...



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oh, OK jawad - I took that as a "process" comment; ie you didn't know what it did to get you the "worked for me" outcome.



So dead in the water I guess as it kinda has the death stare from anyone that has a proper grasp of what is involved in doing what...



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Re: Extend Character Count for Subject Line

This

http://ift.tt/1tjL8fz

Kinda sums it up.



In true honesty, I don't see why can't it just be changed to VARCHAR(something) and do the edits I mentioned above to Post.t...



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Hi again,



Sorry Vince, I commented immediately after that

Quote from: jawad96 on Yesterday at 07:56:21 PM

Actually, I'm not even sure what it does

It looked like it had no effect..? Not sure.



The reason I need more...



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When you have the project manager and one of the world's most foremost experts on SMF (and so modest ) telling you it's a bad idea... you pretty much would need to have a fairly exceptional reason to do it, not to mention providing more details about...



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Oh, it definitely requires source changes.



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As Arantor says -- this would require changing the database, changing the template(s) and possible changing some of the source file(s).



*AND* is not recommended...



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