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How to refer to a user name containing a space or a dot etc

I know I can refer to a user name using the @ sign e.g. @Aviathor.

How do I do the same if the user name contains a space e.g. @Airborn Again ?

Last Edited by Aviathor at 20 Oct 16:46
LFPT, LFPN

Do you have the answer to this one, @David

LFPT, LFPN

Replace the spaces with underscores. I know it’s not terribly intuitive. In future we’ll probably disallow spaces in usernames.

So: @airborn_again [misspelt deliberately to avoid annoying airborne_again]…

EGTR / London, United Kingdom

Thank you!

LFPT, LFPN

From here

1st one is easy: there is an extra space

The @ch.ess I can’t find at the moment. Some “privacy minded” people use weird characters e.g. 0 instead of O to make their username hard to search for, but this is not one of them. Maybe there is a bug in the software preventing the @username format to work with usernames containing non-alpha chars…

Links fixed.

Administrator
Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

(why would I change my username, just because some software functionality can’t handle it?)

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EDM_, Germany

The issue is that a lot of people joined up in 2012 etc with usernames containing spaces etc, which the software should have rejected but didn’t.

Now we have to pay $50/hr to get these things looked at.

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom
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