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Media and file captions on Telegram can currently hold up to 1024 characters, this limit could be increased to match the character limit for regular messages (4096).
See also: Increase character limit for messages
Larger captions could be especially useful for videos because Telegram supports timestamps to facilitate jumping between various fragments of the video. With videos up to 2GB, it becomes difficult to fit informative timestamps into 1024 characters.
Timestamps could be added in the reply to the video because that reply would enjoy much larger (4096) character limit. To prevent the video from losing its timestamps when forwarded, the video caption could include a link to the reply.
E.g. add a selection of the most important highlights to the caption, plus a link to the full list posted separately in a reply: "See the full list of timestamps below"
I ask Telegram administration to please consider removing that limit for ALL users.
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