Is it ever OK to truncate a username? Is there any good solution / trade-off?
Site shows username as: Username: Shrinivasuk View: Shrinivasu...
Username: Ritesh View: Rite Username: Poonam View: Poona Username: Deepak View: Deepa Username: sourab View: sour
Answer
If at all possible, you should avoid truncating a unique name. Restricting usernames to a maximum length is one way of dealing with this.
However, if you have some very long usernames:
- don't wrap the elipsis (…) to another line. This makes it appear at first glance that the full username is visible, and is likely to cause confusion.
- you should make sure that selecting the name takes you to a profile for that user which contains their full username. If you don't do this, you make is even easier to impersonate other users and end up with a major administration hassle.
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