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Display name character limit? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For the past couple of weeks I've been trying to add my pronouns to my display name, so that it appears as "YourHeroes4Ghosts (she/her)". I've changed it in settings and saved, many times, but it doesn't appear to be changing on my posts and comments. Is this because of a character limit, or is there some other issue?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure the current limit is 20 characters. I hit that wall as well when I tried setting my wanted display name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What interface are you using to change it? I discovered when editing mine that changes made in an app didn't stick (I tried both Jerboa and Connect) but changes made in the browser did (so maybe Voyager/wefwef would have worked, but I didn't try that). I don't know why it works that way or if that's a bug that needs reported.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm using Firefox to access on my PC, which makes it even more confusing.