Closed Bug 1278477 Opened 9 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Mozilla IRC nick limit is 31 chars

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(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: Infrastructure: IRC, task)

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RESOLVED INVALID

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(Reporter: bugzilla, Unassigned)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce: Set nick with a length of 31 characters Actual results: It worked Expected results: Limit should be lower, breaks some clients
this server advertises the nick length correctly via 005 RPL_ISUPPORT: .. NICKLEN=31 .. i'd argue this is a problem with your client, not the server.
What do you define as a client being broken? If the client has a column for nicks and that column dynamically adjusts based on the length of the longest nick, that isn't broken, that's just an unfortunate design decision.
Sorry, I didn't notice your attachment when I posted my first comment. That seems like they set a maximum width on the nick column, but forgot to actually shorten nicks that go over that maximum width. Since your client still runs fine, and it is purely a visual bug, I wouldn't classify it as your client breaking. Also, while I am the person in question who is taking advantage of the long nick length, I won't mind if Mozilla IRC chooses to reduce the nick length limit. But for the time being the limit is 31, so I assume Mozilla IRC wants people to be able to have long nicks like mine.
Leaning on the side of "this is a client issue".
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Product: Infrastructure & Operations → Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard
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