While I have adjusted mine because of being cut off, I’ve noticed others with long location names.
Are they doing a programming trick (don’t tell me how, just if) or does it change from time to time, or are some locations grandfathered in from earlier times?
IIRC a character limit was set shortly after the upgrade to this version of the boards, but in the “in between time” from when the boards came back up after the WooMC to when the limit was set, people were able to have long location names. These were grandfathered in. I believe the older version of the boards also had a limit, so the only people with long locations are the few who typed in something long while playing with all the cool new features.
The older versions of the boards didn’t have a location field displayed under the username (depending on how you define “older versions”.) But as mnemosyne said if you typed in a long location before we reduced the number of characters allowed (would you believe some people had super-long locations and other people were complaining how the super-long locations were screwing up the format of the thread display? 
), and you haven’t changed it since, then the long location remains. As soon as you change it though you’re hit with the 30-character limit.
Make that 25-character limit.
Daer Mods, please close my thread now.
Thank you.