Increase amount of characters in blog posts

Hello,

first I want to say, I think that the open source social network software from elgg is a stunning product.

I want to thank all core-developers and addon-developers for their efforts and I hope addon-developers will update their addons asap, since elgg 1.8.3 makes a deep cut with "deprecated" addons.

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To the matter of this post:

My extern blog-software (thus not elgg-blog) takes the full length of all posts.

In elgg-blog I have the problem that the amount of characters of blog-posts seem to be limited, I can't transfer a longer blog-post completely to elgg-blog, cause the amuont of characters is limited - by some reason.

Someone assumes, this is due to limitations by MySQL? That sounds plausible, correct me if I'm wrong.

I.e.: someone (another person who runs elgg-software too) can use an amount of 32000 characters in elgg-blog, while I can use ca. 65000 characters.

But that's insufficient, I have some longer texts, and I don't want to split a blogpost.

Is there a solution for this problem?