When you build a pickax the descriptive information you can write under the title says 500 characters are available. However, it truncates it at 128 characters. So really, you need to keep it under 128 characters if you want all of the content to show on the front end.
I know - but if you click on the 3 dots - not that any one would do that, the rest of the info will show.
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This is a major design flaw that is seemlingly easy to fix in my opinion. Or, at a minimum, don’t falsely advertise the 500 characters when in reality only 128 of them can be seen by the user. No one knows to click on the three dots.
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Agreed, although it probably would be best to stay under 128 for ease of reading to the user.
It actually is 500 words. The issue with this (as with all truncation issues on the website) is that Studios are used on such a wide variety of devices. We set an auto-truncation system that will make it look best on the majority of those devices. With the new studios we removed some of the customizability in favor of increased simplicity and a higher floor on visual styling. We’re still see-sawing internally on whether we need to adjust back the other way. We’ll see.
I appreciate the response, Admin_Mike, and the context is helpful. But I have to respectfully disagree with the approach of limiting customizability in favor of simplicity. I think that’s a flawed tradeoff. Letting creators decide how much they want to customize — or not — is key to building a platform that scales with both novice and experienced users. Increased simplicity should be an option, not a constraint.
Also, I’d like clarification on what “a higher floor on visual styling” means in practical terms. Because from my perspective, it actually feels like you’ve lowered the ceiling on what’s possible in terms of presenting a polished, branded front-end experience. The fact that the landing page editing tools are still so rudimentary makes that limitation even more pronounced.
I’m building and managing a full suite of AI tools at https://studio.adtastic.com, and I want to offer users a clean, engaging, high-conversion experience. But with the current constraints, it feels like we’re trying to showcase cutting-edge tools in a framework that’s visually stuck in beta. Even now I am having issues in trying to style just some of the basic layout and content of the landing page because in all honesty, even the rudimentary controls don’t really seem to always work as intended. If we want more serious builders and brands to lean into the platform, the studio experience — especially around content control and presentation — has to evolve.
Just my two cents, but I’d love to see Pickaxe lean into more advanced customization, not away from it.