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Username Limit of 10 Characters Is Awful
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TomBrookl
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23. January 2008 @ 14:37 |
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The limitation of 10 characters to a username is one of the most unneccessary and awful characteristics that could be possibly be incorporated into any internet website.
Why does afterdawn do it, and when are they going to correct this simple but aggregious defect?
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goodswipe
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23. January 2008 @ 16:30 |
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lol, couldn't get the "yn" to fit eh...that sucks.
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TomBrookl
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23. January 2008 @ 16:36 |
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right. lol. And the problem is I can't easily keep track of these kind of anomolys.
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varnull
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23. January 2008 @ 18:52 |
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Why does afterdawn do it, and when are they going to correct this simple but aggregious defect?
Just so you know.. it's egregious :lol
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24. January 2008 @ 02:49 |
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you could of made your nick
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24. January 2008 @ 04:37 |
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Originally posted by TomBrookl:
The limitation of 10 characters to a username is one of the most unneccessary and awful characteristics that could be possibly be incorporated into any internet website.
Why does afterdawn do it, and when are they going to correct this simple but aggregious defect?
If it was unlimited, people would make stupidly long names, if it was too short, people would be unhappy.
In my few years here this is the only time I've seen someone publicly complain about the limit on characters for usernames. I think 10 characters is a fair limit; besides, many more and you'd be throwing off the forum template :lol:
I think ZoSo's suggestion was pretty good, actually. Shame you didn't think of that earlier!
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TomBrookl
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24. January 2008 @ 13:35 |
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Originally posted by varnull:
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aggregious defect?
Just so you know.. it's egregious :lol
Thanks for pointing that out, varnull. I appreciate being corrected so I can do better in the future. Just as now, afterdawn has the opportunity to correct a deficiency in their website. Let's see how they handle it.
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TomBrookl
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24. January 2008 @ 13:39 |
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Originally posted by ZoSoIV:
you could of made your nick
TBrooklyn
Hi Zo,
I could make my nick a lot of things, but my internet name is TomBrooklyn, not TBrooklyn or TomBrklyn etc. If I had to remember a different name for every website I signed on to, imagine how difficult that would become.
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24. January 2008 @ 13:44 |
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This seems like a pretty petty thread, but just so you can hear it from admin themselves I'll leave it open. It's certainly not the end of the world and I doubt they will change the entire site just to accomodate one request when the rest of the site seems to not have major issues with the 10 character user name limit.
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TomBrookl
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24. January 2008 @ 13:44 |
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Originally posted by Ripper:
If it was unlimited, people would make stupidly long names, if it was too short, people would be unhappy.
In my few years here this is the only time I've seen someone publicly complain about the limit on characters for usernames. I think 10 characters is a fair limit...Quote:
Hi Ripper,
I don't think the length should be unlimited, but 9 or 10 characters is too short. Most people have first and last names that combined are more than 10 characters. 15-20 characters ought to be the minimum. Just because no one else may have complained yet doesn't mean they aren't dissatisfied. Often people just accept the status quo. Let's not use that as an excuse to be less than we can be.
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goodswipe
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24. January 2008 @ 13:48 |
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Or if he created the name 7omb200k1yn, I think that would have been way cooler.
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24. January 2008 @ 14:45 |
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Originally posted by TomBrookl:
If I had to remember a different name for every website I signed on to, imagine how difficult that would become.
Oh dear, shame you didn't pick an obscure standard password that would work across most sites; I have server password lists to remember for work that are a few pages long, and i have to somehow manage with whatever password limitations i have to work with, am sure you'll manage :P
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24. January 2008 @ 14:45 |
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Hi Ripper,
I don't think the length should be unlimited, but 9 or 10 characters is too short. Most people have first and last names that combined are more than 10 characters. 15-20 characters ought to be the minimum.
Most people don't use their full name as an online alias, Tom. And as I said, over a certain number of characters would not fit the forum template [as coded by the admins themselves].
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Just because no one else may have complained yet doesn't mean they aren't dissatisfied. Often people just accept the status quo. Let's not use that as an excuse to be less than we can be.
A fair point, but I don't see the number of characters in my forum username somehow diminishing my self as a human being. To put it frankly, I think you are being needlessly picky. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, though; whether it will change things is another matter.
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varnull
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24. January 2008 @ 17:47 |
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I don't have a real name.. I only exist in virtual space.. I'm a test function.. My full name is...
array_key_exists($var, $base))&&($base[$var]===NULL
and is too long for this site (and really annoys the sites which do allow special characters and long strings)
Why not use TB1.. short and sweet
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The special NULL value represents that a variable has no value. NULL is the only possible value of type NULL.
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24. January 2008 @ 23:10 |
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Originally posted by Ripper:
Most people don't use their full name as an online alias, Tom.
+1. To do such would be quite silly.
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varnull
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25. January 2008 @ 07:48 |
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Seems a little unfair as one poster on every thread is allowed a 13 character user name. (best Rolf impression) "can you tell who it is yet kids?"
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25. January 2008 @ 08:10 |
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It's that Mr. Advertisement fellow...
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varnull
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25. January 2008 @ 09:29 |
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That's the chappie :lol:
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25. January 2008 @ 12:06 |
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Alright, 10 characters is bit short, considering the fact that we have more than 700,000 registered users (then again a-z + 0-9 accounts 36 characters if I counted correctly. 36^10 ... a big number :-). Can't remember what the original reasoning behind the limit was, but I can tell you that if we ever decide to allow longer names, the limit wont go up very much, as it would -- as said above -- screw up the layout on several pages.
Originally posted by varnull:
Seems a little unfair as one poster on every thread is allowed a 13 character user name. (best Rolf impression) "can you tell who it is yet kids?"
ROTFLMAO =)
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27. January 2008 @ 05:00 |
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dude this is not a fast food restraunt you can't have it your way here! so suck it up, and don't worry be happy!
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TomBrookl
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27. January 2008 @ 14:29 |
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Hi,
I didn't actually expect afterdawn would change the username character limit (UCL.) A website this large and well established is likely to be too mired in convention to be able to change something, even if it is an improvement.
Afterdawn has been successful in spite of the UCL, and it's webmaster(s) probably has succumbed to the same complacency that often affects similar institutions.
I have noted that some websites which have a large userbase are switching from signing in with usernames to email addresses. This is likely because they are running into a shortage of unique usernames that people want to use.
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27. January 2008 @ 14:55 |
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Originally posted by TomBrookl:
Hi,
I didn't actually expect afterdawn would change the username character limit (UCL.) A website this large and well established is likely to be too mired in convention to be able to change something, even if it is an improvement.
damn, and the recoding was well under way, 6 extra coders were drafted in for your username change alone. Can you forgive us, or at least give us time to sort it out for you ?
/sarcasm mode on :)
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27. January 2008 @ 15:01 |
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Originally posted by TomBrookl:
Hi,
I didn't actually expect afterdawn would change the username character limit (UCL.) A website this large and well established is likely to be too mired in convention to be able to change something, even if it is an improvement.
Actually contrary to that, we quite actively develop the site based on user feedback, we just happen to have quite small dev team and therefor when things get added to our "to-do" list, it might mean that they're scheduled for development in 2 years' time :-)
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I have noted that some websites which have a large userbase are switching from signing in with usernames to email addresses. This is likely because they are running into a shortage of unique usernames that people want to use.
Tht might work fine for certain types of registration-required sites, but not to forums, where people's nicks need to be unique and where nobody wants to publish their email addresses as their "screen names".
But as stated, this question has been raised before and we'll look into it. If it is trivial to change, as I assume it is (just need to check about 10,000 templates to make sure that all the places that assume it is a max 10 char long, are taken care of..), we might have time this spring to squeeze the change through. But hey -- 'drd' is so damn short nick that it is often taken (or the site has _minimum_ length set to four for nick names :-) that I need to often come up with alternatives when I register to other sites :-)
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TomBrookl
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28. January 2008 @ 23:35 |
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Cool. Thanks for your consideration.
Tom
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30. January 2008 @ 11:34 |
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