Discord gives you one place to describe yourself on your profile: the About Me field. Discord's own support documentation puts a 190-character limit on it, and it is explicit that links count toward that limit like any other text.
That is the whole problem. A single GitHub URL can be 40 characters. Three of them, plus a sentence explaining who you are, and you are over budget before you have mentioned the thing you actually shipped. This page covers what fits, what does not, and the standard way people get around it.
Where the field is, and what it holds
There is one About Me field and no separate website field, so every link you want on your profile shares that same 190-character budget. Discord does surface Connections — linked accounts like GitHub, Steam, Spotify or X — separately from About Me, and those are worth turning on because they do not consume any of your characters. They are a fixed list of supported services, though, so they cannot hold a link to your own project.
- On desktop: User Settings → Profiles → About Me.
- On mobile: your avatar → Edit Profile → About Me.
- Limit: 190 characters, per Discord's support documentation, with links counted as part of that total.
- Discord documents the field as supporting Markdown text and links.
Do the character arithmetic first
Before deciding anything, count what you are trying to fit. Write out the sentence describing yourself and every URL you want, then count the characters. Most people are surprised: three raw URLs and a short line of context typically lands somewhere past 190, which is why the field feels broken the first time you use it.
If your total is under 190, you are done — put the links in and stop reading. The rest of this page is for the common case where it is not.
- A GitHub profile URL is usually 30 to 45 characters.
- A project domain with a path is often 25 to 50.
- A newsletter or Substack URL is frequently over 40.
- The sentence explaining who you are is rarely worth cutting below about 60.
Three ways to fit more than one link
The third option is what most people end up doing, and not only on Discord — it is the same move that the one-link limit on X forces. You publish a single page listing every link, put that one short URL in About Me, and the 190-character limit stops mattering because you are only ever spending characters on one address.
- Cut to one link. Pick the single most important destination and let the rest go. This is genuinely the right answer if one link dominates the others.
- Turn on Connections for anything Discord supports natively, so GitHub or X do not spend your characters.
- Point the field at one page that holds all the links, and spend the characters you save on the sentence about yourself.
Keep the one URL short
If you are going to spend characters on a single link, the length of that link is now the thing that matters. A short handle on a short domain leaves room for an actual sentence about what you build. A long URL with a query string defeats the purpose of the exercise.
This is also why link shorteners are a bad fit here. They are short, but they hide the destination, and on a profile a stranger is deciding whether to trust you. A readable address that shows a name is doing work that a random six-character redirect cannot.
What this looks like with Pagr
Our version of the one-page approach: type a handle, a name and your links, and pagr.nanocorp.app/yourhandle is live. There is no account and no password, and the page is a plain dark page of text links rather than a storefront. An optional email gets you a private edit link so you can add a link later.
That address is short enough to sit in a 190-character About Me and still leave room for a sentence. Free pages carry a small footer badge; one payment of $19 removes it. We built it for the one-link limit on X, but the Discord constraint is the same shape of problem.