Overly long Usernames

[Cold]

They really mess up the index formatting, especially when the topic starter with too many characters in their name comments on their own thread.

This possibly should be in the "Things That Annoy You..." thread.

[Om]

One does ones best to atone.

[Cold]

Your assistance is noted and appreciated.

[Dave.]

Cold said:

They really mess up the index formatting, especially when the topic starter with too many characters in their name comments on their own thread.

They also put that bloody stupid song in your head every bloody time too! bd!

[vaud]

Dave. said:

They also put that bloody stupid song in your head every bloody time too! bd!

What? Do you mean “baby shark a doodle do”?

[eldar]

In the dim and distant past i seem to remember . was a valid logon.

[Ben Lowden]

Can you share an example of poor formatting please? We truncate a username to 16 characters which should prevent any iffy formatting, but please share any examples on this thread so we can take a look.

We are unable to reduce the the number of characters for existing usernames, so rely of formatting fixes where they're causing issues.

[Harpoon]

Should the forum truncate usernames on all pages? This is Pie & Piston index for me at the moment - stupidly long username wastes space as other columns have to wrap.

[valiant]

It tends to be worse when the poster starts a thread and then responds to the thread or to another so it appears on page in both author and last contributor columns messing up the page.

[Ben Lowden]

Thanks for flagging these points, let me raise it with the team and we'll see what we can do.

[BabySharkDD]

My apologies! I hadn’t realised it was causing issues

[B'stard Child]

BabySharkDD said:

My apologies! I hadn’t realised it was causing issues

Well if no one else is going to thank you for trimming your user name down I will

As a bonus that song isn’t coming to mind any more so double bonus result

[Wacky Racer]

BabySharkDD said:

My apologies! I hadn’t realised it was causing issues

I loved your original version....

Also like "Unexpected item in the baggage area".

[BabySharkDD]

Wacky Racer said:

BabySharkDD said:

My apologies! I hadn’t realised it was causing issues

I loved your original version....

Also like "Unexpected item in the baggage area".

I’m guessing you have kids too and like to share the pain of that song

[pquinn]

Is it just me, or has someone had a half hearted go at 'fixing' this and just caused a mess in both desktop and mobile modes?

Seems that lots of slightly longer names are now truncating with ... which is a readability problem in itself especially when it trys to cut at ~10 characters, but they've also somehow done it in a way that isn't reliable in deciding at what string length it'll truncate so the actual number of characters can vary wildly.

[Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area]

Wacky Racer said:

I loved your original version....

Also like "Unexpected item in the baggage area".

I’m now showing as ‘Unexpected I’

[CoolHands]

Exactly. I miss the way it was, including babysharkdoodoodoodoodoodoo

[Last Visit]

CoolHands said:

Exactly. I miss the way it was, including babysharkdoodoodoodoodoodoo

Same, it was only ever a minor inconvenience at most.

[ajprice]

I hope take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey is ok...

[Zarco]

The shortened names look cack. Change it back PH.