# Group name character limitation

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-name-character-limitation/31229
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2015年七月21日 02:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-name-character-limitation/31229 "2015-07-21T02:33:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![preDawnHunter](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/predawnhunter/32/116445_2.png) [@preDawnHunter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/preDawnHunter)
#### Post date: [2015年七月21日 02:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-name-character-limitation/31229/1 "2015-07-21T02:33:39Z")

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Is it possible that I could customise the length of group name? All groups I am trying to create are over 20 characters…

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### Author: ![clay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/clay/32/102156_2.png) [@clay](https://meta.discourse.org/u/clay)
#### Post date: [2016年三月11日 02:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-name-character-limitation/31229/2 "2016-03-11T02:00:50Z")

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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. 😒

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016年三月11日 02:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-name-character-limitation/31229/3 "2016-03-11T02:25:40Z")

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Isn’t this subject to the same length restrictions as usernames?

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年三月11日 02:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-name-character-limitation/31229/4 "2016-03-11T02:53:29Z")

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Yes it is … all you need to do to allow long group names is to allow long usernames via site settings.

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### Author: ![clay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/clay/32/102156_2.png) [@clay](https://meta.discourse.org/u/clay)
#### Post date: [2016年三月11日 14:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-name-character-limitation/31229/5 "2016-03-11T14:01:02Z")

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Awesome! Thank you! Wish I’d known this a while ago… 🙂

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2018年十二月27日 10:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-name-character-limitation/31229/6 "2018-12-27T10:26:56Z")

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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [2018年十二月27日 20:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-name-character-limitation/31229/7 "2018-12-27T20:06:41Z")

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