This would definitely be beneficial for my usecase. Although things have been delayed due to pandemics and such, a publication I’ve migrated for a colleague of mine from Medium has dozens of writers, many of whom are academics and authors. I’m not sure how Medium’s bios work (I avoid that thing like the plague COVID-19), but I know that on many of the posts I’ve migrated over that several of these authors have added lengthy personal bios to the end of the post itself, consisting of mention of universities (and faculties) they teach at, books they’ve written, institutions they’re a part of, etc. I’d say that adding that stuff to the end of the post should be discouraged for various reasons (can’t be dynamically updated across all posts of a particular author, etc.), yet as things stand being able to add those comprehensive bios to a Ghost publication isn’t possible with a 200-character limit.
As a bonus, it’d be nice if HTML could be utilized (and not counted against the character count) as this would allow for linking to websites where an author’s book(s) could be found, etc. (which would be on top of the already-existing staff member website field).
Last of all, supposing the character count was raised, would it be possible to limit the amount of words used on certain pages (via something like {{content words="200"}})? For example, while one may want to display the entire 800-character (or whatever it be) bio on the authors page as well as on the pages of each individual author, due to some themes placing the author image and bio in a side-panel it might not work design-wise to cram lengthy bios in such spaces, which could instead implement the aforementioned {{content words="200"}} as well as a read more link.
p.s. I tried voting for this topic but my limit was already reached. I removed two of my votes, but curiously enough that didn’t free up any votes that I could dispense. I still have one voted topic in my list that is no longer in the Ideas category but rather is in the Themes category. If possible, perhaps my vote for that non-Ideas topic could be removed so I could vote for this topic?