Hi. We’re in progress of moving a big community on Discourse from vb3. Many usernames - around 1.200 - do contain the exclamation mark “!” and I couldn’t find any option to re-enable it. We already enabled “unicode usernames” to no avail. Is there any ready solution for this issue? Thank you!

No. Changing legal characters in usernames is not really an option. I think they’ll have to have less exciting usernames.

Wow, seems like quite the oversight…is any technical explanation for this? Our would we be able to sort this with a plugin or a fork?

I didn’t make the decision, but there are plenty of systems for which a ! isn’t a valid character for a username. It’s a good bet that if you did try to allow it in a plugin (or a fork, which would be a very, very bad idea if you ever want to upgrade Discourse again), it will be hard. The ! has spe…

I understand. It’s something that should be addressed though. All other BB solutions allow that char in the username and it’s common in gaming communities. Username and user ID should be kept as separate entities as not to have such limitations. We have around 95.000 members and contacting 1.200 of …

I’ve done dozens, maybe over a hundred imports. I pay close attention to people asking about imports here. This is the first time I remember anyone complaining about it. [이미지] AV C: contacting 1.200 of them to change their username is going to be a real PITA. You can tell everyone to try bot…

It’s worth pointing out that names and usernames aren’t the same thing. Usernames are used in URL paths, for example: https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman/summary An exclamation mark isn’t a valid character in a URL, while characters such as ? & have special purposes in URL structure and therefor…

makes perfect sense @Stephen , thanks for clarifying. I think we could just alter the import script to do something like: username_original = username username = @htmlentities.decode(user["username"]).strip { id: user["userid"], name: username_original, username: user…

[이미지] Stephen: It’s worth pointing out that names and usernames aren’t the same thing. Usernames are used in URL paths In addition to this, usernames are meant to be used in @mentions, and so the expectation is that usernames will be straightfoward and easy to type; that’s why we only allow A…

[이미지] Leonardo Mosquera: Like Stephen says, usernames are not the place to show user personality; the name and flair fields are There’s still quite a few fringe cases that are difficult to manage with it being this way. Names are non-unique, if we give priority in the layout to the name you …

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AV_C (AV C) 12월 2, 2022, 5:24오후 7

I found a couple of topics:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/username-restrictions/126664

It’s probably going to be alot more than just exclamation marks. Seems such a strange limitation, since you can use those characters anywhere else.

Anyway, thank you for your help.

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