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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by chrismorgan on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @01:54AM (#46054840)
> Lots of people like to make really long video titles. So right now there is one on my screen titled “The Best Decisions Every Video Game Console Developer Made”.

Even with the missing “ (Part 2!)” added, that’s still only 68 characters. I would probably begrudgingly call this long, but I would definitely not call it “really long”—my threshold for that would be at least 90 characters.

If they’re truncating around 60 characters, I’m content to call it unreasonable.

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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by MBCook on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:24AM (#46058270)
It’s only “really long“ because it doesn’t fit on my screen.

I agree in the abstract it’s a perfectly reasonable title. It should absolutely be readable.

But it’s not. Because the app sucks.

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