XHB File Name Trimming Notice
BotB Academy Bug Reports and Feature Requests
 
 
200770
Level 13 Mixist
Mrperson987
 
 
post #200770 :: 2024.11.13 11:33am :: edit 2024.11.13 5:47pm
  
  nitrofurano, avoset, Titan of Plasma, Chepaki, sean, Opilion and ItsDuv liēkd this
Just a tiny request, although the actual contents of the entry are obviously the most important portion of your entry, the name can also help paint a picture in a listener's mind, thereby having the possibility of improving score. Throughout my times battling, I have noticed that uploaded entries are trimmed to 60 characters only (Example).

I get why this is done, and for most Botbrs 60 characters is more than enough to convey your tone, but it would be nice if BotB gave the user a little popup or note that states that the entry's name will be cut, and possibly also show the result of the cuttage (Or additionally someone could just add to a lyceum article warning about it, but actually hardcoding a feature in would lead to less unintended mistakes).

Again, I know it's a tiny detail, but sometimes the tiniest thing makes all the difference [:
 
 
200777
Level 27 Chipist
kilowatt64
 
 
 
post #200777 :: 2024.11.13 1:52pm :: edit 2024.11.13 1:53pm
  
  mirageofher, Chepaki, sean, Mrperson987, damifortune and ItsDuv liēkd this
Yeah, I think it's 64 characters (including the file extension if that's part of the name, such as in xhbs). I've had that happen too. I think in most cases 64 seems sufficient, and although it does catch people off guard once in a while in my opinion I'd chalk this one up to unexpected "botb rites of passage" along with self-favoriting and the like. The unexpected name gets to live on and is part of the fun!
 
 
200780
Level 31 Chipist
damifortune
 
 
 
post #200780 :: 2024.11.13 3:10pm
  
  mirageofher, Chepaki, sean, kleeder, Opilion and Mrperson987 liēkd this
for a while we had a little box on the ohb page that listed your submission name + the resubmit button, i'm not exactly sure where or why that got lost, perhaps something to do with gradual operations on the battle engine. i wouldn't mind seeing that come back as a sort of middle ground, since it shows you the name of your entry and is also helpful for ensuring you submitted the right file to begin with.
 
 
200797
Level 31 Chipist
kleeder
 
 
 
post #200797 :: 2024.11.13 9:23pm
  
  mirageofher, damifortune, Titan of Plasma, Opilion, Chepaki, sean and Mrperson987 liēkd this
the thing dami talks about disappeared when we got the new battle engine in 2020
it wld be super helpful, also for verification of being the correct upload, if the filename wld be present again on the xhb page after submitting (for the submitter only)
 
 
201005
Level 29 Mixist
goluigi
 
 
 
post #201005 :: 2024.11.15 2:56am
unfortunately not much you can do in xhbs but for major battles, you can put the rest of the filename in the description like this

https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/%5BV%5D%5BE%5D%5BN%5D%5BK%5D%5BA%5D%5BT%5D%5BA%5D%5BN%5D%5BA%5D%5BR%5D%5BA%5D%5BS%5D%5BI%5D%5BM%5D%5BH%5D%5BA%5D%5BR/16443/
 
 
201006
Level 28 XHBist
Tex
 
 
 
post #201006 :: 2024.11.15 3:20am
  
  nitrofurano and damifortune liēkd this
I have this problem with XHB battle names, too. So, I started using a character counter.
 
 

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