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[ADDED] Remove scoreboard name length limit (16 char limit removal)

At the point that the game is... I never understood why there was a limit to how big the scoreboard objective names are. I've done a little coding and with the removal of IDs and allowing for near infinite blocks, why is a scoreboard name limited? There is no reason not to add this, and it so useful to those of us who use it so often for data packs and command functions, where shortening the name to abbreviations of words is just ridiculous. 

For instance: SpawnerUpgradeTimeout is too long (it has 21 characters) vs having to use SpnrUpgrTimeout... it just seems like an oversite. I wonder if there is a statistic for how many times a player tried to create a scoreboard name that was too big... It would probably come up a lot more than some know.

 

This also seems like such a simple addition that there is no reason not to add it!

 

EDIT: This feature has been added to the game! Thank you Mojang <3

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    Agreed!

    This is the most frustrating aspect of datapack creation.

    I like to prefix my objectives with the namespace of my datapack to avoid conflicts, and also use snake_case when coding, as it's much more readable and clean.
    Unfortunately both of these significantly increase the name of objectives.

    A similar suggestion is to use namespaces in scoreboards: https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/360032430412-Namespaces-in-scoreboard-objectives

    Btw, this suggestion is in the wrong section, it should have been posed to Commands.

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    Yes, absolutely agree! This so frustrating!

    Please also remove 16 character length limit for team names!

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    Minecraft 1.18 Snapshot 21w37a finally removed this limitation!