# Truncate long topic titles in notifications

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/truncate-long-topic-titles-in-notifications/124562>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [August 1, 2019, 12:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/truncate-long-topic-titles-in-notifications/124562 "2019-08-01T00:28:49Z")\
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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:** [August 1, 2019, 12:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/truncate-long-topic-titles-in-notifications/124562/2 "2019-08-01T00:30:12Z")

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This bugs me as well, but the honest truth is it’s easier to fix it by enforcing globally shorter title length requirements in site settings.

I just checked and we have it overridden to 140 here from a default of 255 ⚠

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