There needs to be a size limit on screen names

[crono_logical]

It doesn't if there's no space, hence why we added that ages ago

EDIT: I think it wraps the name if there's spaces - it only cuts if it can't wrap. It's the custom title that set to not wrap and always cut it. I don't think there's actually a nowrap="nowrap" attribute, it's all CSS.

[RSL]

So do we think 25 characters is too high a limit? Because that would make several usernames illegal if we changed it.

[rubah]

set nowrap to something else like custom titles?

[crono_logical]

I'd rather the limit be "don't stretch the tables"

[RSL]

Yes, but what limit should that be? Is 25 fine? Jojo's new name does stretch it a bit if she has the last post in a thread somewhere, but it isn't that bad.

[Roto13]

20 sounds good to me.

[crono_logical]

Make your name extra long again, RSL - it should no longer stretch the table if you're the last poster in a thread

[RSL]

No way, it took like five minutes to change back and I was freaking out.

20 would make several usernames illegal, roto13.

[Rye]

Gasp!

Though seriously, I have no problem with giant names. It'd be cool if we could take some characters from usernames and say... maybe... put them in custom titles?

[Leeza]

Make your name extra long again, RSL - it should no longer stretch the table if you're the last poster in a thread

It did not stretch the tables. I seen it as <i>RSL is changing his name for just a moment do</i>.

The last two words were cut off.

[RSL]

In a thread, it would. But if I had the last post in a forum, on the main page, it would stretch the tables (like the image in roto13's first post, only more extreme.)

[Raistlin]

I agree with clout: a set limit is fine just so people don't make obscenely long names, but I think a more general rule of "don't stretch the tables" is fine. It doesn't have to be a set number. If someone hypothetically made a 20-character name which stretched the tables, it shouldn't be allowed - though other people with 20-character names that don't stretch the tables can be allowed (is that even possible?).

[-N-]

I'll just pre-emptively state that I hate you all. Just in case, you know?

[Roto13]

20 would make several usernames illegal, roto13.

I can live with that

I'll just pre-emptively state that I hate you all. Just in case, you know?

*shun*

[Samuraid]

Use the "M" rule. You know, use the letter "M" to measure a good character limit since it's one of the widest letters in most fonts. That should establish a good limit.