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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.

    Claudio González
    Claudio González
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    April 4, 2011

    DWILCOX01 wrote:

    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:

    I think it should be very easy to just truncate a long user name (without any spaces in it) to 12 or 16 characters. The user should still be recognizable by the first 12 or 16 characters (lee@LEETHOMP).

    Also, the problem is really with the forum topic listings, not the topic display itself.


    I think I must repeat what I said above:

    I have always used as my username my real name, 16 characters long and  including an accented vowel that doesn't exist in the English alphabet, and it doesn't disturb the page setup. I am not willing to have it mutilated, or to change it.
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