Ok, I think I did my research on this, but I only found this discussion, which never really answered the question: Why does PerlMonks limit users' passwords to 8 characters only?

Here are my guesses:
• It's a left-over from the Everything codebase
• There's a database constraint like char(8)
• Similarly, it's to save space in the database
• The site maintainers want to be able to crack anyone's password easily if needed (I'm not really that paranoid!)

I'd like to hear from the pmdev team as to why things are the way they are, and I'd really prefer to avoid delving into the whole password policy/length/writing-down debate. I just would like the option to have a longer password, without forcing anyone to adhere to a particular length or complexity requirement.

Thoughts?

UPDATE: reworded to avoid sounding demanding, sorry

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