I was not saying your point does not stand though, maybe we could have a different layout like two radio buttons for either "truncate nicknames" or "wrap nicknames"... That doesn't sound bad actually
And if you need to know, for some reason the truncation limit does impact the wrapping as well. IIRC the wrapping is done at something like ( length of the timestamp + truncation limit ) / 2, or something. Don't ask me why it's like that, I have no idea
Edit: or maybe it's (length of the timestamp / 2) + truncation limit ...
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