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Original GitHub issue: Can't revert to a blank profile GitHub issue raise more recently suggesting greater demand: "Edit Profile" bio must have a minimum of 30 characters When editin...
#6: Post edited
Is there a reason for preventing user profile content being less than 30 characters?
Original GitHub issue: - [ Can't revert to a blank profile](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/945) GitHub issue raise more recently suggesting greater demand: - ["Edit Profile" bio must have a minimum of 30 characters](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/1092) --- When editing my user profile the interface prevents me from entering fewer than 30 characters. I can understand imposing a minimum length on question titles and post content, but I don't see a reason that a profile page needs to be a certain length. Is there a reason I'm missing or was this just a default? As one of our communities is for Code Golf, I can imagine some users might like to have quite short content in their profiles (code golf is all about expressing things as briefly as possible). As a test, I've set my profile to say "I'm succinct", which is significantly shorter than the 30 character minimum. I got around the interface-imposed minimum by adding extra HTML code, like this: ```html <p title="Or at least I aim to be...">I'm succinct.</p> ``` *(...yes, the title text does show on hover in the profile, if anyone's wondering if that works)* If there isn't a reason for preventing short profiles, removing the limit would save people having to work around it. If there *is* a good reason, let me know and I'll remove my workaround. ### Related bug If it turns out that there isn't a need to set a minimum length for a user profile, then maybe setting the minimum to zero would avoid having to add any special case code to fix this related bug: [Once filled out, the user profile cannot be reverted to empty](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287128).
#5: Post edited
- GitHub issue raise more recently suggesting greater demand:
- - ["Edit Profile" bio must have a minimum of 30 characters](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/1092)
- ---
- When editing my user profile the interface prevents me from entering fewer than 30 characters. I can understand imposing a minimum length on question titles and post content, but I don't see a reason that a profile page needs to be a certain length. Is there a reason I'm missing or was this just a default?
- As one of our communities is for Code Golf, I can imagine some users might like to have quite short content in their profiles (code golf is all about expressing things as briefly as possible). As a test, I've set my profile to say "I'm succinct", which is significantly shorter than the 30 character minimum. I got around the interface-imposed minimum by adding extra HTML code, like this:
- ```html
- <p title="Or at least I aim to be...">I'm succinct.</p>
- ```
- *(...yes, the title text does show on hover in the profile, if anyone's wondering if that works)*
- If there isn't a reason for preventing short profiles, removing the limit would save people having to work around it.
- If there *is* a good reason, let me know and I'll remove my workaround.
- ### Related bug
- If it turns out that there isn't a need to set a minimum length for a user profile, then maybe setting the minimum to zero would avoid having to add any special case code to fix this related bug: [Once filled out, the user profile cannot be reverted to empty](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287128).
- Original GitHub issue:
- - [ Can't revert to a blank profile](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/945)
- GitHub issue raise more recently suggesting greater demand:
- - ["Edit Profile" bio must have a minimum of 30 characters](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/1092)
- ---
- When editing my user profile the interface prevents me from entering fewer than 30 characters. I can understand imposing a minimum length on question titles and post content, but I don't see a reason that a profile page needs to be a certain length. Is there a reason I'm missing or was this just a default?
- As one of our communities is for Code Golf, I can imagine some users might like to have quite short content in their profiles (code golf is all about expressing things as briefly as possible). As a test, I've set my profile to say "I'm succinct", which is significantly shorter than the 30 character minimum. I got around the interface-imposed minimum by adding extra HTML code, like this:
- ```html
- <p title="Or at least I aim to be...">I'm succinct.</p>
- ```
- *(...yes, the title text does show on hover in the profile, if anyone's wondering if that works)*
- If there isn't a reason for preventing short profiles, removing the limit would save people having to work around it.
- If there *is* a good reason, let me know and I'll remove my workaround.
- ### Related bug
- If it turns out that there isn't a need to set a minimum length for a user profile, then maybe setting the minimum to zero would avoid having to add any special case code to fix this related bug: [Once filled out, the user profile cannot be reverted to empty](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287128).
#4: Post edited
- When editing my user profile the interface prevents me from entering fewer than 30 characters. I can understand imposing a minimum length on question titles and post content, but I don't see a reason that a profile page needs to be a certain length. Is there a reason I'm missing or was this just a default?
- As one of our communities is for Code Golf, I can imagine some users might like to have quite short content in their profiles (code golf is all about expressing things as briefly as possible). As a test, I've set my profile to say "I'm succinct", which is significantly shorter than the 30 character minimum. I got around the interface-imposed minimum by adding extra HTML code, like this:
- ```html
- <p title="Or at least I aim to be...">I'm succinct.</p>
- ```
- *(...yes, the title text does show on hover in the profile, if anyone's wondering if that works)*
- If there isn't a reason for preventing short profiles, removing the limit would save people having to work around it.
- If there *is* a good reason, let me know and I'll remove my workaround.
- ### Related bug
- If it turns out that there isn't a need to set a minimum length for a user profile, then maybe setting the minimum to zero would avoid having to add any special case code to fix this related bug: [Once filled out, the user profile cannot be reverted to empty](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287128).
- GitHub issue raise more recently suggesting greater demand:
- - ["Edit Profile" bio must have a minimum of 30 characters](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/1092)
- ---
- When editing my user profile the interface prevents me from entering fewer than 30 characters. I can understand imposing a minimum length on question titles and post content, but I don't see a reason that a profile page needs to be a certain length. Is there a reason I'm missing or was this just a default?
- As one of our communities is for Code Golf, I can imagine some users might like to have quite short content in their profiles (code golf is all about expressing things as briefly as possible). As a test, I've set my profile to say "I'm succinct", which is significantly shorter than the 30 character minimum. I got around the interface-imposed minimum by adding extra HTML code, like this:
- ```html
- <p title="Or at least I aim to be...">I'm succinct.</p>
- ```
- *(...yes, the title text does show on hover in the profile, if anyone's wondering if that works)*
- If there isn't a reason for preventing short profiles, removing the limit would save people having to work around it.
- If there *is* a good reason, let me know and I'll remove my workaround.
- ### Related bug
- If it turns out that there isn't a need to set a minimum length for a user profile, then maybe setting the minimum to zero would avoid having to add any special case code to fix this related bug: [Once filled out, the user profile cannot be reverted to empty](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287128).
#3: Post edited
- When editing my user profile the interface prevents me from entering fewer than 30 characters. I can understand imposing a minimum length on question titles and post content, but I don't see a reason that a profile page needs to be a certain length. Is there a reason I'm missing or was this just a default?
- As one of our communities is for Code Golf, I can imagine some users might like to have quite short content in their profiles (code golf is all about expressing things as briefly as possible). As a test, I've set my profile to say "I'm succinct", which is significantly shorter than the 30 character minimum. I got around the interface-imposed minimum by adding extra HTML code, like this:
- ```html
- <p title="Or at least I aim to be...">I'm succinct.</p>
- ```
- *(...yes, the title text does show on hover in the profile, if anyone's wondering if that works)*
- If there isn't a reason for preventing short profiles, removing the limit would save people having to work around it.
- If there *is* a good reason, let me know and I'll remove my workaround.
---- If it turns out that there isn't a need to set a minimum length for a user profile, then maybe setting the minimum to zero would avoid having to add any special case code to fix this related bug: [Once filled out, the user profile cannot be reverted to empty](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287128).
- When editing my user profile the interface prevents me from entering fewer than 30 characters. I can understand imposing a minimum length on question titles and post content, but I don't see a reason that a profile page needs to be a certain length. Is there a reason I'm missing or was this just a default?
- As one of our communities is for Code Golf, I can imagine some users might like to have quite short content in their profiles (code golf is all about expressing things as briefly as possible). As a test, I've set my profile to say "I'm succinct", which is significantly shorter than the 30 character minimum. I got around the interface-imposed minimum by adding extra HTML code, like this:
- ```html
- <p title="Or at least I aim to be...">I'm succinct.</p>
- ```
- *(...yes, the title text does show on hover in the profile, if anyone's wondering if that works)*
- If there isn't a reason for preventing short profiles, removing the limit would save people having to work around it.
- If there *is* a good reason, let me know and I'll remove my workaround.
- ### Related bug
- If it turns out that there isn't a need to set a minimum length for a user profile, then maybe setting the minimum to zero would avoid having to add any special case code to fix this related bug: [Once filled out, the user profile cannot be reverted to empty](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287128).
#2: Post edited
- When editing my user profile the interface prevents me from entering fewer than 30 characters. I can understand imposing a minimum length on question titles and post content, but I don't see a reason that a profile page needs to be a certain length. Is there a reason I'm missing or was this just a default?
As one of our communities is for Code Golf, I can imagine some users might like to have quite short content in their profiles (code golf is all about expressing things as briefly as possible). As a test, I've set my profile to say "I'm succinct", which is significantly shorter than the 30 character minimum. I got around the interface imposed minimum by adding extra HTML code, like this:- ```html
- <p title="Or at least I aim to be...">I'm succinct.</p>
- ```
- *(...yes, the title text does show on hover in the profile, if anyone's wondering if that works)*
- If there isn't a reason for preventing short profiles, removing the limit would save people having to work around it.
- If there *is* a good reason, let me know and I'll remove my workaround.
- ---
- If it turns out that there isn't a need to set a minimum length for a user profile, then maybe setting the minimum to zero would avoid having to add any special case code to fix this related bug: [Once filled out, the user profile cannot be reverted to empty](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287128).
- When editing my user profile the interface prevents me from entering fewer than 30 characters. I can understand imposing a minimum length on question titles and post content, but I don't see a reason that a profile page needs to be a certain length. Is there a reason I'm missing or was this just a default?
- As one of our communities is for Code Golf, I can imagine some users might like to have quite short content in their profiles (code golf is all about expressing things as briefly as possible). As a test, I've set my profile to say "I'm succinct", which is significantly shorter than the 30 character minimum. I got around the interface-imposed minimum by adding extra HTML code, like this:
- ```html
- <p title="Or at least I aim to be...">I'm succinct.</p>
- ```
- *(...yes, the title text does show on hover in the profile, if anyone's wondering if that works)*
- If there isn't a reason for preventing short profiles, removing the limit would save people having to work around it.
- If there *is* a good reason, let me know and I'll remove my workaround.
- ---
- If it turns out that there isn't a need to set a minimum length for a user profile, then maybe setting the minimum to zero would avoid having to add any special case code to fix this related bug: [Once filled out, the user profile cannot be reverted to empty](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287128).
#1: Initial revision
Is there a reason for preventing user profile content being less than 30 characters?
When editing my user profile the interface prevents me from entering fewer than 30 characters. I can understand imposing a minimum length on question titles and post content, but I don't see a reason that a profile page needs to be a certain length. Is there a reason I'm missing or was this just a default? As one of our communities is for Code Golf, I can imagine some users might like to have quite short content in their profiles (code golf is all about expressing things as briefly as possible). As a test, I've set my profile to say "I'm succinct", which is significantly shorter than the 30 character minimum. I got around the interface imposed minimum by adding extra HTML code, like this: ```html <p title="Or at least I aim to be...">I'm succinct.</p> ``` *(...yes, the title text does show on hover in the profile, if anyone's wondering if that works)* If there isn't a reason for preventing short profiles, removing the limit would save people having to work around it. If there *is* a good reason, let me know and I'll remove my workaround. --- If it turns out that there isn't a need to set a minimum length for a user profile, then maybe setting the minimum to zero would avoid having to add any special case code to fix this related bug: [Once filled out, the user profile cannot be reverted to empty](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287128).