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Subject length issues
    #19505257 - 02/01/14 08:55 AM (9 years, 11 months ago)

Maybe this has been posted before, but I've got a tiny suggestion.  Perhaps we can decrease the maximum subject length for the first post in a thread by 4 characters to accommodate the "Re: " that is added in subsequent posts.  That way, if the OP goes to the limit, the rest of the posts don't hit an error in subject line and have to be edited to the limit.

Of course, the other option is to increase the limit of the subsequent posts by 4 characters...whichever makes more sense from a programming standpoint.


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Re: Subject length issues [Re: Enlil]
    #19505362 - 02/01/14 09:24 AM (9 years, 11 months ago)

That's a good idea. The max subject length is 255 characters because it's the most that can be stored with MySQL's "tinytext" data-type. But we could certainly limit it to 251 to accommodate replies... hrm or maybe just auto-display the "Re:" part without actually storing that as part of the subject... I'll have to think about the best way to do it. Good suggestion though, I've also noticed subject lines being cut off and had it in the back of my mind to look into.


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Re: Subject length issues [Re: Ythan]
    #19505380 - 02/01/14 09:29 AM (9 years, 11 months ago)

Yes, originally I was thinking that it'd be better structurally just to have the "Re:" be stored as an additional field and then displayed without taking subject text space, but I figured that'd be a far bigger modification than just reducing the OP limit.


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Re: Subject length issues [Re: Ythan]
    #19506150 - 02/01/14 01:13 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

I think auto-displaying the "Re:" part without actually storing that as part of the subject would be the best way to go about it, but the other way wouldn't be bad either. 256 characters is a decent amount of characters for a title, I don't think deducting a few from that would be that big of a concern for most people.


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