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'About me' Character Limit

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Humza
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Posted: Sun, 20/04/2014 15:20 (10 Years ago)
I want to suggest that the Limit of writing different stuff in 'About Me' should be expanded. I really want to write down many things but the Character Limit always stops me so I want to expand the Limit of 'About Me' by 250-500 characters more!
Edit: The 'About Me' space is mostly used to decorate with some Links, Donation Boxes,Pokemon IDs, Personal Clicklists, Fan Club pics etc. so these things take a lot of space due to long URL so this feature could come in handy!
Support or No Support?

Artevoir
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Posted: Sun, 20/04/2014 15:26 (10 Years ago)
to how much humza?




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Humza
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Posted: Sun, 20/04/2014 15:27 (10 Years ago)
I really don't know the max character limit but lets see, how about 200 more words?

Artevoir
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Posted: Sun, 20/04/2014 15:29 (10 Years ago)
alright that might work i support it




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Squirtle002
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Posted: Sun, 20/04/2014 15:31 (10 Years ago)
Support by me if it is about 100-200 characters.(or people would start spamming)

Humza
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Posted: Mon, 21/04/2014 13:42 (10 Years ago)
Bump?

Queen_Pumpkaboo
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Posted: Mon, 21/04/2014 13:46 (10 Years ago)
I'm always a bit cautious about changing a character limit for things, usually because they're a certain length for a reason. But this I think I can support, mainly because, and I am being honest, our about me's are normally filled with things we want to show off: links to art threads, links to pokemon, links to donation boxes, links to sprites we've made, links to trading threads, etc. etc.

These links can take up quite a bit, and then we try and squeeze in just a bit about ourselves along with it the about me becomes just a bit short. Maybe a little bit longer of a character limit would be okay.
Humza
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Posted: Mon, 21/04/2014 13:49 (10 Years ago)
How about 400-500 more characters?

Queen_Pumpkaboo
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Posted: Mon, 21/04/2014 13:54 (10 Years ago)
300-400 words single spaced is about half a page of writing, depending on the font used and other variables. Considering the About Me box is rather small in size you'd have to account for how many words could fit in the box. If someone were to write 400 words, half a page of text, that might run off the About Me box and look messy. Then the size of the About Me box would have to be enlarged or made longer in order to account for the more text that shows up.

Which is something Riako would have to do. So I am kind of hoping he'll say how easy or difficult it would be to make this change.

Or, the box could scroll down, keeping it the same size, and making a scroll bar for the added text if that is easier. I am not a coder haha so I am not sure if these things are even problems or solutions.
AutumnStar
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Posted: Mon, 21/04/2014 20:01 (10 Years ago)
a larger about me limit would be kind of nice - some people like to decorate their about me with images, which i think is also a part of how people tell about themselves (knowing people does not always have to be through words)

many people also like to put their hunts/links to friends/particular pokemon in their about me, and lots of other things, it gets confining to try to work under the current limit


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Leptro
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Posted: Mon, 21/04/2014 21:03 (10 Years ago)
I support, I have the same problem. This should be implemented with signatures too.
Spiritburn
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Posted: Mon, 21/04/2014 21:07 (10 Years ago)
I actually had a major issue with the limit earlier today. All my images are hosted on Deviantart, so are quite a long url, and I had to re-do the whole thing at least fifteen times to try and get it short enough to include everything I currently have there. And I don't like to use url shortening sites for the actual link codes because I like for those who are clicking the links to know where they are going instead of hoping it's not a link to a strange or unwelcomed site.

So full support from me, because of images and the like.


I don't think this should be included for signatures. I've yet to run into a problem with it, and typically if you go over the character limit, you're going over the allotted size limit as well, putting a scroll bar that most users won't check through anyway.

Diana
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Posted: Tue, 22/04/2014 04:19 (10 Years ago)
Full support, I need more space xD
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Aisling
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Posted: Tue, 22/04/2014 06:45 (10 Years ago)
Full support. I'd like more space as well. I use a lot of images and links in my About me & Signature


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Posted: Tue, 22/04/2014 08:37 (10 Years ago)
Full support ! need more characters for bbcode >.<




Humza
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Posted: Fri, 02/05/2014 14:57 (10 Years ago)
I forgot about this thread so Bump!

Leo_
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Posted: Fri, 02/05/2014 15:00 (10 Years ago)
Suppoooort :3
Book
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Posted: Fri, 02/05/2014 15:00 (10 Years ago)
Support!

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Queenie-Chan184
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Posted: Fri, 02/05/2014 15:04 (10 Years ago)
Full support! Sooner or later I will be having problems about the Limits.. Decorating my About me and what not.. XD

(I'm not sorry. C: )

Humza
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Posted: Sun, 04/05/2014 14:44 (10 Years ago)
Bump!