Thread Title Length - increase?
 

Is there any particular reason why thread titles are capped at however many characters they are? Can we bump it up a bit? Just wondering. Maybe from 85 to 125?

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Would be nice to increase the characters, within a limit of course.

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Met you in the middle at 105 and we can see. Is there much reason to have an entire (old) Twitter post as a thread title?

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Thanks! :up: Let's hope it doesn't come to that ;)

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Why in the world do we need thread titles at 100+ characters?

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Because it's a free country, and 85 characters is an impediment on our basic freedoms!!

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Good point. Carry on...

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Bigger is not better! That what she said. :(

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Now please adjust the column width to accomodate the increased characters... you can always reduce the amount of wasted space in the Last Post column

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Yeah, I've been hoping for a formatting update for this. Last Post has WAY too wide a column. With everything left-justified and the ad bar on the right, I'm always looking to the far left of my screen when browsing.

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Can you guys give me an example of where the increased characters are an issue? I can adjust those myself, but reformatting has to go through tech.

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They aren't saying it's a new issue, it's just that it all looks cramped with the column spacing. And with longer thread titles it makes each line thicker for wrapping (so you get less on a screen).

This is the "New Posts" page, but in the main page of a forum the "Last Post" column has a lot of extra space in it too.

https://i.postimg.cc/MHQpyLKF/posts.jpg

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I'm still not entirely clear on why longer thread titles were desired. Seems like a solution in search of a problem. Then again, I don't start threads very often.

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^ I had a thread idea (not the one I started, but one in Politics that I still haven't made, and may not bother) that I couldn't figure out a shorter thread title for. Other forums I visit have like a 200-character limit. 85 just seemed archaically short. :shrug:

Honestly didn't think anyone would bitch about it :lol: but this is DVDTalk dot com.

Keep yellin' at the clouds, boys.

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If my relatively innocuous comment that even allowed for the fact that I don't hit the use case very often can objectively be considered "bitching" then I think all hope for discussion on forums is pretty much lost. ;)

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^ I meant it in the most loving, respectful way. :)
Nah, bitching was a bad word to use. I just meant the general resistance (in this thread and the one in Other) on the topic was a bit of a surprise, but I should have known better. It was also a bit of a surprise that IBJoel ran with it so quickly, but hey, that's just good customer service!

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"Passive aggressive questioning" would've been more accurate phrasing - at least in the case of my post. -ptth-