Edit: Fixed typos, added alt text.
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.
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.
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.
