# Long Profile Link Bug
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-profile-link-bug/80041
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [February 7, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-profile-link-bug/80041 "2018-02-07T18:26:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Cool\_Cool](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Cool_Cool)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-profile-link-bug/80041/1 "2018-02-07T18:26:23Z")
I know this is kind of silly, but recently it was found out that you can put these long sentences with periods in between the words and it will count as a link, and these can be very long.
I mean it doesn’t really matter but it will make everything look a bit more tidy to just put a few periods… if it is longer that the player card. Or limit the link characters.
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### Author:  [@JonnyGamer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JonnyGamer)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-profile-link-bug/80041/2 "2018-02-07T18:43:24Z")
Thanks for referencing the 😂
Lol jk, when I discovered this glitch, I tried adding a few more characters to that inconceivably long website, it disallows it with an internal server error. I’ll try and find the character limit before there error 👌
Probably some power of 2
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### Author:  [@JonnyGamer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JonnyGamer)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-profile-link-bug/80041/3 "2018-02-07T18:57:04Z")
[http://the.most.fantasic.website.to.be.ever.convieved.on.the.interwebs.or.something.like.that.how.long.does.this.go.for.it.seems.to.go.on.and.on.and.on.and.on.dont.stop.believing.something.something.forgot.the.words.yeah.testing.the.character.limit.he.com](http://the.most.fantasic.website.to.be.ever.convieved.on.the.interwebs.or.something.like.that.how.long.does.this.go.for.it.seems.to.go.on.and.on.and.on.and.on.dont.stop.believing.something.something.forgot.the.words.yeah.testing.the.character.limit.he.com)
This is the max string of characters. I’ll find how many that is
Edit: It’s 256, that makes sense
I wonder what would happen if I replaced all of these characters for the longest unicode character that I used to break the layout of the “latest” hmmm 🤔
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### Author:  [@JonnyGamer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JonnyGamer)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2018, 7:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-profile-link-bug/80041/4 "2018-02-07T19:02:57Z")
Okeedokes, now click on my pfp and have a good glitchy time 😂
(I found that 256 "﷽"s just hid itself when I say that it’s my website. However, I changed it to my location, and the glitch returns!)
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Well, I mean, it’s not a glitch. It’s just a thingy that needs to be truncated because it breaks the user card
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-profile-link-bug/80041/6 "2018-02-12T15:07:29Z")
This is fixed — long URLS will now truncate instead of overflowing.
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### Author:  [@memorablechickenyay](https://meta.discourse.org/u/memorablechickenyay)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-profile-link-bug/80041/7 "2018-02-12T21:35:02Z")
looks good. but still, maybe check to make sure it’s actually a valid website? not sure how to do that but whatever lol
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2018, 11:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-profile-link-bug/80041/8 "2018-02-13T23:00:04Z")
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