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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

I can't think of any system I've ever seen which allows spaces in the account name.  Note however that your account name is separate from your real name, and the real name field DOES allow spaces (in fact they are expected).  But yeah, from this point forward you would need to use underscores, hyphens, or periods to separate your name if you used that as an account username.  I should make that more clear on the registration page as well.

On 07/19/2017 05:26 PM, vv AT cgs.pw wrote:

I imagine this is the easiest and most reliable way
and so please don't take this as a complaint. I just
want to note that people's real names normally have
a space. This is how my name appears on tax returns
etc., so using an underscore, for example, should
probably be called a nick name to avoid confusion.
I've ended up with something I didn't intend on some
sites where I wanted to use my real name. I do
understand the desirability of making the "name"
something which would also be a valid file name.

~ Ole


On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 16:30:50 -0600
Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:

Oh I also forgot to mention... there are a number of user
names that could contain invalid characters in some
systems.  For example I found quite a few with spaces in
the name.  I have corrected the members page so no new
accounts can be created with anything but a-z, 0-9,
hyphen, underscore, or period, but we will need to clean
up the existing accounts at some point.

On 07/19/2017 04:22 PM, Jeff Taylor wrote:

What I really want to do is add some code to the
members page, be.libre, and the API pages so that when
someone uses their account it actually updates a
lastLogin field.  Then we could more easily see which
accounts are still active and maybe remove inactive
accounts after 3 years or so.  Just a little bit of
automatic housekeeping. Sure it's nice to say we have
6000 members, but it would be even nicer if we could
say we have 3000 ACTIVE members.


On 07/19/2017 03:02 PM, Daniel Quintiliani wrote:  

"OpenNIC has almost 6,000 registered users, and
thousands of lookups every day" is not ugly in a press
release or news article...

-- 

-Dan Q
 

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