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What's the story with usernames stretching out pages?

  • 30-03-2013 8:41pm
    #1
    Tombi!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭


    I thought there was going to be a limit on the amount of characters in a username but there are still overly long names that stretch out a page on a resolution of 1600x900. I'm pretty sure one of the staff said it was being fixed. That was sometime around when the new skin came in, I think.

    I can't even find the thread but I'm sure it was Danny might have mentioned it being looked into.
    Post edited by Shield on


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  • #2
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,156 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Yeah I noticed someones location stretches the page over too

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #3
    Squeaky the Squirrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Squeaky the Squirrel


    They lowered the limit tooooooooooo not more than 40 characters and no word longer than 14 and on thread name wraps onto second line instead of cross screen.

    Theirs 2 new peeps knocking round with long names alright,

    one

    can't say it bothers squeaky at all though.


  • #4
    Squeaky the Squirrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Squeaky the Squirrel


    In squeaky exp, long named peeps usually turn out to be trolls and are banned fairly quick for being dicks.


  • #5
    Boards.ie: Danny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Danny


    Brutal Deluxe wrote: »
    I thought there was going to be a limit on the amount of characters in a username but there are still overly long names that stretch out a page on a resolution of 1600x900. I'm pretty sure one of the staff said it was being fixed. That was sometime around when the new skin came in, I think.

    I can't even find the thread but I'm sure it was Danny might have mentioned it being looked into.

    Links to where this stretching is affecting the layout?


  • #6
    Squeaky the Squirrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Squeaky the Squirrel


    Boards.ie: Danny wrote: »
    Links to where this stretching is affecting the layout?

    I THINK its only when you're in looking at list of theads in a forum and if a long namer was the last to post in one, it'll stretch out that part.

    Thats the only place i see it anyway, brutal may have another eg.


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  • #7
    Tombi!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    Yeah what Squeaky said it.
    It's just annoying really. But any posters that get the last post, if their name is too long, it'll stretch the page when you looking at a forum


  • #8
    Squeaky the Squirrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Squeaky the Squirrel


    Squeaky the Squirrel wrote: »

    one
    lol, Banned already.


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