diff --git a/app/soapbox/features/group/edit-group.tsx b/app/soapbox/features/group/edit-group.tsx
index 1e8024f6f9..57f0adfef5 100644
--- a/app/soapbox/features/group/edit-group.tsx
+++ b/app/soapbox/features/group/edit-group.tsx
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { Button, Column, Form, FormActions, FormGroup, Icon, Input, Spinner, Tex
 import { useAppSelector, useInstance } from 'soapbox/hooks';
 import { useGroup, useUpdateGroup } from 'soapbox/hooks/api';
 import { useImageField, useTextField } from 'soapbox/hooks/forms';
+import toast from 'soapbox/toast';
 import { isDefaultAvatar, isDefaultHeader } from 'soapbox/utils/accounts';
 
 import AvatarPicker from './components/group-avatar-picker';
@@ -20,7 +21,7 @@ const messages = defineMessages({
   heading: { id: 'navigation_bar.edit_group', defaultMessage: 'Edit Group' },
   groupNamePlaceholder: { id: 'manage_group.fields.name_placeholder', defaultMessage: 'Group Name' },
   groupDescriptionPlaceholder: { id: 'manage_group.fields.description_placeholder', defaultMessage: 'Description' },
-  success: { id: 'manage_group.success', defaultMessage: 'Group saved!' },
+  groupSaved: { id: 'group.update.success', defaultMessage: 'Group successfully saved' },
 });
 
 interface IEditGroup {
@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ const EditGroup: React.FC<IEditGroup> = ({ params: { id: groupId } }) => {
     });
 
     setIsSubmitting(false);
+    toast.success(intl.formatMessage(messages.groupSaved));
   }
 
   const handleAddTag = () => {
diff --git a/app/soapbox/locales/en.json b/app/soapbox/locales/en.json
index 265cb1bcc7..b7a7a5f6db 100644
--- a/app/soapbox/locales/en.json
+++ b/app/soapbox/locales/en.json
@@ -811,6 +811,7 @@
   "group.tabs.members": "Members",
   "group.tags.hint": "Add up to 3 keywords that will serve as core topics of discussion in the group.",
   "group.tags.label": "Tags",
+  "group.update.success": "Group successfully saved",
   "group.upload_banner": "Upload photo",
   "groups.discover.popular.empty": "Unable to fetch popular groups at this time. Please check back later.",
   "groups.discover.popular.show_more": "Show More",
diff --git a/app/soapbox/normalizers/__tests__/instance.test.ts b/app/soapbox/normalizers/__tests__/instance.test.ts
index 90472e7f8a..f2bac48670 100644
--- a/app/soapbox/normalizers/__tests__/instance.test.ts
+++ b/app/soapbox/normalizers/__tests__/instance.test.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ describe('normalizeInstance()', () => {
         },
         groups: {
           max_characters_name: 50,
-          max_characters_description: 100,
+          max_characters_description: 160,
         },
       },
       description: '',
diff --git a/app/soapbox/normalizers/instance.ts b/app/soapbox/normalizers/instance.ts
index 3632b9058b..77233c1430 100644
--- a/app/soapbox/normalizers/instance.ts
+++ b/app/soapbox/normalizers/instance.ts
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ export const InstanceRecord = ImmutableRecord({
     }),
     groups: ImmutableMap<string, number>({
       max_characters_name: 50,
-      max_characters_description: 100,
+      max_characters_description: 160,
     }),
   }),
   description: '',