Guild Wars 2

The character limit on forum post titles is too short. I understand you don’t want titles to be too long, but this is too restrictive.

I agree that I run out of space in the title now and then, especially when “tagging” the title to indicate it’s a suggestion or such. Sadly I don’t know that they can change it, since they can’t do much with the forum code thanks to the contractor that developed it being long gone. They’re limping along with what they have since doing it again from scratch while preserving five-plus years of forum discussions would be a huge undertaking.

As Donari says, it’s a limitation of the forums, not an entirely-intended restriction by ANet. The forum software was built by a 3rd party with whom ANet not longer has a business relationship, which makes it difficult for ANet to change a lot of things about the current structure.

There are some rumors that ANet might be replacing the system with a new one. Unless/until that happens, we’ll have to deal with a number of relatively minor issues.

For what it’s worth, I find that it’s always possible to edit a title to fit. It just takes an extra minute or two.