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increase card title length
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently, the card title can be only 255 characters long.
Describe the solution you'd like In the best case, infinitely long card titles should be possible. When displayed on the board, the text can be truncated visually.
Describe alternatives you've considered The card title should be allowed to be at least 1000 characters long.
Additional context Ticket can be done together with #4002
What's the use case? Why a very long title when you can use the description field for extended content?
How would the ideal infinitely long title be displayed on the card when it's viewed? How would a title 1000 characters long be displayed? At 18pt (current title font size when a card is open in "bigger view") 1000 characters broken into words would occupy most if not all of the card display, making it hard to access any other function of the card.
I currently have two specific different use cases where long titles would help:
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I use the title to capture a (long) user story. The description then includes the details and requirements for the user story.
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I also use Nextcloud Deck to create an agenda. Here the title of the card is an agenda item. The agenda items must be clearly worded in this process. You need to get all the information about what specifically is to be discussed and decided. The description then includes further information and a proposed decision.
When displaying in the stacks, I would truncate the card title. In the detailed view, it could be displayed in full. Or the truncation could be longer than in the stack view.
Personally I still don't see why those can't use the description; a truncated long title is no more use for finding the item than a short title is, and if you have to open the card (and potentially still scroll through the long title to read it) you're no better off than with the longer content being at the top of the description (and potentially with the long title you're worse off, because the smaller font of the description means more content is displayed without any action after opening).
For me, a longer card title would help for my use cases. By implementing this issue, no one will be forced to use longer texts after all.