Bukkit/CraftBukkit — comment on commit 792fe3e8c611f7a8aa0390c4d2d384931b56e43d
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By grandwazir:

I agree this is an unhelpful change. The problem is @feildmaster is that if one player has a name which is too long, it prevents clients from connecting to the server, regardless of if it is their name or not. I can't imagine a case where it would be desirable to let plugins do that.