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Bob_Peters
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April 3, 2011
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a request for Adobe and Jive

  • April 3, 2011
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Long user names such as the one shown below create havoc with the display of a page.  Take a look at the Lightroom forum to see what I mean.

So, my request:  Enforce the use of shorter user names or truncate the name when displayed on a forum page.

And the name is (nothing personal intended):

[email address deleted by host]

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    mytaxsite
    mytaxsite
    Inspiring
    April 3, 2011

    I had a quick look at the Forum you are referring to but all I can see is that the name is displayed in a specified column which has a fixed size so it appears normal in Firefox 4.  I can post the screenshots if you want to see what I mean.  It could be that I don't understand what you are complaining about so I'll wait for others to comment further on this matter.

    pwillener
    pwillener
    Legend
    April 3, 2011

    I don't have FF4, but in FF3.6 it looks terrible, especially if the long username appears in both the Author and the Last Post column.  As a result, the Subject column is compressed into multiple lines of almost only one word each.

    I agree with the OP's request to cut off long user names in the topic lists.

    mytaxsite
    mytaxsite
    Inspiring
    April 3, 2011

    I agree with the OP's request to cut off long user names in the topic lists.

    Perhaps this may not be technologically feasible because a name is a name and you can't just trim it down  to make it completely unrecognizable.  the solution could be to limit all usernames to a maximum of 10 characters (and perhaps a minimum of 6).  Alternatively, that particular column should be reconfigured so that a name that exceeds a certain number of characters should be wrapped.  Perhaps this is already in place because all I see in FF4 is according to this picture:

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