5d ago

As an app developer, I'm about to just give up on showing the community display names 😔

Edit: Fixed typos, added alt text.

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Alternate meme:
As a mother and a fireman, community long descriptions really burn my tits
Lemmy 1.0 will have community summaries as a separate field from the display name and the sidebar, so hopefully people will stop using the display names as summaries (cough !climate@slrpnk.net, !egg_irl@lemmy.blahaj.zone).
Would be nice to have like a short name for communities, limited in size, but mods can still type anything.
- We have that. It’s called “Community Display Name”
In the app I'm using, I often have an ellipsis ("...") at the end of shortened community names. I barely know what communities they are.
- Yep, that's the most common solution (I do that, too). Though I also do some "smart" splicing to try to detect the description part and cut that out, but it can't cover all cases.
Just truncate it at the first punctuation mark (or space if they try to game it by removing colons and hyphens).
- I've been doing that for ages now: splicing it at : and - and using the first array element. It's just annoying. That, and having to watch and account for false-positives (e.g. X: Files, Self-Hosted, etc). And some places it makes sense to show the full name, but it often still gets truncated in CSS depending on device width. Plus, some community display names don't use that format :(
  Was trying a different approach this time around, and it clearly didn't work out lol.
Meh, just live with text breaks. And if it has to break in the middle of a long word, who cares?

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