When user is creating a new group we don't inform them about character limit for username and/or displayname fields.
We do that warning for user/group settings now anyway, so we could help users a bit here:
- Add this informer to the Create account/group dialog as well. Doesn't look like a big change but definitely would make limit visible without users hitting the wall of “Display name is too long”.
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Also let's make the field of limited size (same as we do for comments/posts limited at 3K/1.5K characters).
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I'd also show the character counter after username/displayname fields are 75% full, so that it's not appearing so suddenly.
