I tried signing up as NorthernLightMountain but couldn’t since there seems to be a limit on user name length at 20 characters. (There’s a bug for that btw, you won’t get an error message if the user name is too long, it just won’t submit the form and stalls)
Display names seems to share that limit. Wouldn’t mind seeing it raised a bit if possible?
No biggie if not, just hoping I could look like I had imagined :)
Best place to request that would be on github: https://github.com/LemmyNet
I’m pretty sure it’s something you can configre per instance though? I nosed around in the code a bit and even though I’ve never touched rust before it looked like a locally configured value. Might be wrong I suppose.
There is nothing in the admin GUI relating to it. If there is something for it under the hood, the request should still be to the devs to add it to the admin GUI.
Fair enough! Haven’t seen the admin interface myself so I wouldn’t know what’s available. Just saw it in the code regarding length checking on registration and it looked like something configurable:
https://imgur.com/a/MEZAmUS
Yeah… if it means editing code, rather than a configuration file or toggling a GUI option… I’d be asking the devs nicely :)
There was a fix merged a while back that seems to enable changing it via the config file:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/1672/files
actor_name_max_length: 20
That setting does exist but it is not specifically for display names, maybe that should be separate. I’m not sure. How much longer do you think it should be?
Yeah, they used to be separate, now it’s user names a communities combined it looks like.
Not sure, maybe 30? It’s worth playing with. That ought to be enough for a while though? Unless we come up with a long community name that lots of people want. 😁
And to be honest, I don’t get why them combined them. Feels like a display name ought to be able to be longer than a user name, no?
Ant chance of boasting the max length a bit during some upcoming maintenance or something?
(Pretty please? :D)