Canister name limit of 24 characters is too restrictive

Developers
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@yhabib

On the NNS dapp Canisters management page,
a canister name is limited to a maximum of 24 characters.

This is often too short in practice.
It’s also well below the 64-character limit allowed for contact names.

Raising it to 32 would already be a significant improvement.
Not sure what the implications of such a change would be on your side.

Best regards.

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Hi @jdelforge

I wonder, do you have so many canisters that those eight characters make a difference? I’ll take a look at the implications of increasing it and let you know.

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@yhabib

I have about 50 canisters running…

In order to match the architecture of my projects, which are split across already-large repos containing about close to 10 canisters each, I ideally have to name the canisters as such:

Project Repo Canister Env Subnet

Example with short names, already a total of 26 characters:
Waffle Admin Core Prod GLO

Example with realistic names, total, 31 characters:
Pancake Settle Execute Prod FID

So the limit of 24 is often a pain,
and I end up with names that are hard to decode at a glance.

Thanks!