# Group long names - help give full citizenship to groups for mentions, messaging, group pages

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2016 年 9 月 9 日午後 7:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-long-names-help-give-full-citizenship-to-groups-for-mentions-messaging-group-pages/49949 "2016-09-09T19:45:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Post date:** [2016 年 9 月 9 日午後 7:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-long-names-help-give-full-citizenship-to-groups-for-mentions-messaging-group-pages/49949/1 "2016-09-09T19:45:12Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Group name character limitation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-name-character-limitation/31229/2):

> [@Group name character limitation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-name-character-limitation/31229/2):
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> Can we get this bumped up to 50 characters or something? I have all sorts of crazy abbreviations for groups and it’s getting hard to track what they are. Tonight I was trying to create a group called communication\_science. Nope… Too long. 😒

Discourse Groups are awesome! 🚀 We use them very actively on our community, and want to use them even more.

One barrier is group name length and appearance in various places. An example - mentions, where long names screw up the display. They can’t have spaces as well which is not pretty.

Better would be to replicate the look of user mentions. This would allow us to have short groupnames (up to 15-20 chars) based on acronyms (eg `@lel2016`) and longer names that clearly indicate who’s in the group (eg `2016 Legal Empowerment Leadership Course Participants`)

Examples of both below.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/1/71300fbcb7f58c31b68b96a7c49cb021a4842ce5.png)

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/3/c3e6d63374efbfefe7d4c1d445fff414462677d6.png)

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