Max string size 500 chars?

Is a maximum string size only 500 characters?

I need to store a few paragraphs of sanitized HTML to render some instructions on the frontend. What should I do?

Nope. What makes you say that?

Ah I thought I read it in a previous support question. I would probably need 5,000 - is that manageable?

Did you try it?

yeah it's accepted it - I ask because I was reading a previous support question of someone who had no problem with 500 but as they were getting an error response from the server at 1,000. I didn't want to go all the way down the road configuring the database only find that it would be rejected in the API call.

You should definitely just play around with the different sizes and see what size you need for your data.

The max size in 1.3 is 1GB, but that doesn't mean you should set it to that.