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Member Names by doughboyy on 03-17-2004 at 09:50 AM

What is the length of names for members?? cause i think it should be shortened.

example rakesh_the_great@hotmail.

and when he posted, it makes the site look really weird.

http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=22...d=215292#pid215292

RE: Member Names by Wabz on 03-17-2004 at 10:08 AM

Yeah I gotta agree!  I think something like 20 characters is more than sufficient perhaps even 11 would be enough Christopher is only 11 and that looks too long

RE: Member Names by surfichris on 03-17-2004 at 10:19 AM

Usernames are currently limited to 32 characters. I am assuming WDZ assigned this value..

RE: Member Names by Pappapishu on 03-17-2004 at 02:25 PM

well, maybe not shorten them but skip the line when they get to a certain number of characters so this wouldn't happen

RE: Member Names by WDZ on 03-17-2004 at 03:20 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Chris Boulton
Usernames are currently limited to 32 characters. I am assuming WDZ assigned this value..
I guess I did... the MyBB default is 30, which isn't much better... I'm not sure why I made it 32... :-/

Names of that length are OK if they have a space in them, because they'll wrap onto a second line... unfortunately, the username mentioned in the first post has no spaces. :-/
RE: Member Names by musicalmidget on 03-17-2004 at 09:13 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Wabz
Yeah I gotta agree!  I think something like 20 characters is more than sufficient perhaps even 11 would be enough Christopher is only 11 and that looks too long

musicalmidget is 13 characters and to be honest, I don't think it looks that long.  It doesn't change the page layout or anything.

I've got to agree though that some names are just far to long and I think the limit should be reduced a little. :-/
RE: Member Names by Johnny_Mac on 03-17-2004 at 09:16 PM

* Johnny_Mac votes 17 characters. :banana:

RE: Member Names by user27089 on 03-17-2004 at 09:17 PM

quote:
Names of that length are OK if they have a space in them, because they'll wrap onto a second line... unfortunately, the username mentioned in the first post has no spaces. :-/
not many names have spaces in them though :-/
RE: Member Names by musicalmidget on 03-17-2004 at 09:18 PM

17 Sounds reasonable enough to me.  I don't really think it should be any more than 20 at a maximum...but then it's not up to me. :p

RE: Member Names by kao on 03-17-2004 at 09:18 PM

* kao votes 3 characters. :banana:

:P

As long as my name fits in fine i'm happy :refuck:

No, seriously :P i think about 20-25 is by far enough :undecided:

RE: Member Names by user27089 on 03-17-2004 at 09:19 PM

but whats the point in 20 characters, when most names have a maximum of 10 characters in them anyway, its just pointless, :)

RE: Member Names by kao on 03-17-2004 at 09:26 PM

Well, seen as though JMac has 17, mm has 13... 10 is not enough...

RE: Member Names by Johnny_Mac on 03-17-2004 at 09:35 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Kao
Well, seen as though JMac has 17
:lol:

[Image: 0751359599.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg]

I just think 17 is a good limit that won't alter the page look. :P
RE: Member Names by WDZ on 03-17-2004 at 09:42 PM

:lol: @ Maths :d :p

17 would probably be good... it would be enough for "PiratesOfTheCarib". :refuck:

But why isn't it a nice even number? :dodgy:

RE: Member Names by musicalmidget on 03-17-2004 at 09:43 PM

:lol:

6+1+3 = 17? :p

Now that Fraisie is no longer known as PiratesOfTheCarribean (when did that change? :p), I don't think anyone would be affected by changing the limit to 17.  Perhaps that is the best limit?

quote:
Originally posted by WDZ
But why isn't it a nice even number? :dodgy:

18 then. :refuck:
RE: Member Names by Johnny_Mac on 03-17-2004 at 09:54 PM

I decided 17 because at the time of thinking I was look at this site: http://mathmuse.sci.ibaraki.ac.jp/pattrn/PatternE.html ?

:refuck:

17 is the best age IMO... therefore the best num of characters to use. :P


quote:
Originally posted by musicalmidget
when did that change? :P
When I asked her to change it. :$
RE: Member Names by WDZ on 03-17-2004 at 10:12 PM

quote:
Originally posted by musicalmidget
I don't think anyone would be affected by changing the limit to 17.
Well, even if I set the limit to 3, it would only apply when registering... if you already have a long name, you can keep it. :p
RE: Member Names by kao on 03-17-2004 at 11:04 PM

Oh wait JMac's name isn't 17 :o he said 17 so i thought his name was 17, and i didnt count :lol:


:lol: @ the pic :P

make it 18 like mm said :banana:

RE: Member Names by WDZ on 03-18-2004 at 03:58 AM

Limit set to 18.

RE: Member Names by Fraisie on 03-18-2004 at 05:09 AM

I liked my 28 characters nick :(

RE: Member Names by martin on 03-18-2004 at 07:05 PM

* martin wants a 1 character nick :'(

DZ can u change me name again :P

RE: Member Names by user27089 on 03-18-2004 at 07:09 PM

quote:
Originally posted by martin
* martin wants a 1 character nick :'(


DZ can u change me name again :P
i wanted trax back for ages but then i got used to traxor :)