diff --git a/app/jobs/regular/crawl_topic_link.rb b/app/jobs/regular/crawl_topic_link.rb
index 7ad789cfedc..e77fedfab63 100644
--- a/app/jobs/regular/crawl_topic_link.rb
+++ b/app/jobs/regular/crawl_topic_link.rb
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ module Jobs
               title.gsub!(/ +/, ' ')
               title.strip!
               if title.present?
-                crawled = (TopicLink.where(id: topic_link.id).update_all(['title = ?, crawled_at = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP', title[0..255]]) == 1)
+                crawled = (TopicLink.where(id: topic_link.id).update_all(['title = ?, crawled_at = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP', title[0..254]]) == 1)
               end
             end
           end