Is there any way we can increase the maximum tag length to something bigger than 25 characters?
Right now, our site tags questions by book titles. Unfortunately, many book titles are longer than twenty-five characters. This has lead to some awkward abbreviations, such as zen-and-art-of-mc-maint
Is there any way to increase the maximum tag length?
This can be increased, but only up to a maximum of 35 characters. This means zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance is right out.
I increased the allowed length to 32, thus allowing zen-and-art-of-motorcycle-maint, which should be a little bit easier to recognize. This sort of compromise is likely to be common... Thus, whenever possible, try to work the name of a publication into the title or first paragraph of a question.
As of 8-8-2017, tags can be up to 35 characters long everywhere.
I contacted the Community Managers (the people who work for Stack Overflow the company) and they told me that while it technically is possible to implement this feature request, it was unlikely to happen, due to the fact that a huge portion of the Stack Exchange software relies on the tagging feature, and thus changing the tagging feature would result in all sorts of bugs.
So it doesn't look like this feature request will be happening anytime soon.
(Maybe it's time to reconsider whether we want to tag questions by the titles of books at all.)
Update: the Community Managers have asked a developer to take another look to see if the feature request is possible, based on how the code currently works. I guess we'll see what happens.
