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I highly suggest extending max title length to 225-250 characters to allow titles to be more descriptive and anti clickbaiting. (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Pro@programming.dev to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Lemmy is by default a link aggregator which means users who are browsing posts get 2 things only:

Link.
Title.

From my experience, literally those 25 extra characters could just include that word that can be the word that will give a meaning to the previous 200 characters. Especially that the main competitor for Lemmy (Reddit) allows for up to 300 characters titles.

Overall, it seems pretty essential to give people more context about the link they about to click.

Example where extra characters would highly improve the title: https://programming.dev/post/34472919

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[–] DougHolland@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I must cordially vote ixnay. Shorter headlines are better, and should be encouraged.