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Re:You can change your number by crossroadsguy on Monday February 07, 2022 @09:25PM (#30254236)
It is unfortunate that they seem to be going for user created username. I’d rather have something like ~hkopy-vnhyt randomly generated and given to users with option to try for another randomly generated username if they didn’t like the first.
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Re:You can change your number by Godel_unicode on Monday February 07, 2022 @11:07PM (#30254806)
Nobody is stopping you from doing that for yourself.
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Re:You can change your number by julianwachholz on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @05:35AM (#30256868)
Well the username "~hkopy-vnhyt" would be invalid because they only allow case insensitive a-z, digits and _ underscores.

I can see some reasoning, but there's technically nothing stopping them from allowing more universal ASCII characters at the very least.

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