do not silently truncate text fields when uploading or editing icons

[kate_nepveu]

Title:
do not silently truncate text fields when uploading or editing icons

Area:
profile

Summary:
When uploading or editing icons, if the text entered into the keyword, comment, or description field is too long, it is silently truncated despite the "success" message. As a result, the text attached to icons of wordy users with no memory for, or sense of, the character limits on these fields may be incomplete or incomprehensible.

Description:
If the text entered into these fields is too long, the user should be notified before the text is truncated, advised of the relevant character limit, and presented with their original text to edit.

It would be really awesome if the user could be told how many characters over they were, too.

Poll #8410 do not silently truncate text fields when uploading or editing icons

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 70

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Should be implemented as-is.
57 (81.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
9 (12.9%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
4 (5.7%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[montuos]

...because people who don't type well enough to watch the screen instead of their fingers have entirely failed to notice that the field stopped accepting char long before they stopped typing...