give indication when description gets too long
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	Lydia_Pintscher
	Nov 10 2014, 3:24 PM

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Our descriptions sometimes get too long to be useful to show in search results in the suggester and so on. We should nudge people towards making them short. One clever way to do that would be to give the user a little counter couunting how many letters they already typed and color it red when it becomes too long.

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Note that different languages have very different levels of content density relative to the number of characters (eg certain languages having one character per word). However, if the goal is to keep it below a certain physical size, perhaps measuring the absolute width of the description would work better than measuring the number of letters.

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