I think the basic principles of usability tell us that to let it wrap is better than to force it to break at a point which may look weird to some users.

[edited because trying to demonstrate the principle with the actual string was too hard]

If you put a break after Sondheim, for instance, there'll always be a user for whom "Sondheim" has wrapped onto the next line.

So it'll be like

...burns, mixtapes, club hits, and [wrap]
Sondheim [forced break]
Sarah Vaughan to the Mekons...

Lameo girl wondering if the HTML in headers extends to making live links. Don't want to break anything.

Do you mean the thread headers? You can put live links in the headers.

edit: I did it in some thread or another.

Yeah, but another basic principle of usability is "overly-long lines of text are hard to read." Can we just force those lines to be shorter somehow?

You muste be using a very wide window, Michele, because (as John H. pointed out) the Music slug isn't the only one that wraps on my screen.

I do, in fact, have a humongous screen, Jon. I'm more worried about the lines running very far from the thread title and seeming to merge with the right-hand sidebar. Is this not an issue for you?

Maybe from a half to a third of the slugs wrap around on my 800 x 600 monitor; but there's a gap about... half the size of my first finger... clearly delineating the center bit from the right-hand table.

Is this not an issue for you?

It's not. I see a clearly defined gap, like RL says.

The idea of force-wrapping text to suit isn't a good one, but I'd be happy with the principle of indenting the slugs, it's a much better solution if they're going to get long.

... Would there be some possible way, some day, of being able to mark some posts as unread? You know, like you read them, but you ask it to and it forgets that you read them, so they're later presented as new. I'd really like that, but tell me if it's just silly.