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Q&A Is there a reason for preventing user profile content being less than 30 characters?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Taeir‭

#6: Post edited by user avatar Taeir‭ · 2023-08-10T17:43:38Z (about 1 year ago)
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 by user avatar trichoplax‭ · 2023-07-02T08:14:39Z (over 1 year ago)
Link to original GitHub issue
  • 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 by user avatar trichoplax‭ · 2023-07-01T15:37:30Z (over 1 year ago)
Link to recent GitHub issue for the same problem
  • 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 by user avatar trichoplax‭ · 2022-09-30T20:15:11Z (about 2 years ago)
Replace horizontal line with a meaningful heading
  • 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 by user avatar trichoplax‭ · 2022-09-30T20:13:22Z (about 2 years ago)
Add hyphen to remove ambiguity
  • 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 by user avatar trichoplax‭ · 2022-09-30T20:12:17Z (about 2 years ago)
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).