# Add description to group cards

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-description-to-group-cards/86524>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [May 1, 2018, 10:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-description-to-group-cards/86524 "2018-05-01T10:26:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 10:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-description-to-group-cards/86524/1 "2018-05-01T10:26:19Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Usercard for groups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usercard-for-groups/78587/6):

> [@Usercard for groups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usercard-for-groups/78587/6):
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> Description may overrun the card in very strange ways, and I didn’t find it very useful to display on the card itself. If you’re looking for a full description of the group, you could navigate to the group page from the card.

In our case, it’d be very helpful to have the description on the user card. I think it’d be fine to cut it off with an ellipsis after some number of characters. Showing a partial description would offer greater affordance to seek out the full description.

And I think folks would learn quickly and/or could be nudged to put the important bits at the top of their description so they are more likely to make the cut.

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