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		synack 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has... Every time you see an ellipsis "..." you know that the designer put form over function. Hiding data from the user is never the right answer. They could use their fancy AI to generate shorter titles.

Dylan16807 3 days ago [–]

And if someone puts in a 500 character title, it still can't be truncated?

YouTube making up a shorter title would be so much worse...

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