disalow periods in user names

@soaringeagle
7 years ago
3,304 posts

it only messes up links in commetchat from what i can tell but allowing usernames like james.jones when you click the name in cometchat it says page not found

spaces or - or _ should be fine
but for some odd reason many people use periods which messes up some links

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soaringeagle
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updated by @soaringeagle: 02/16/18 01:10:35PM

@brian
7 years ago
10,136 posts

Sounds like a comet chat issue

You can use the Banned Items module to ban periods in user names.

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@soaringeagle
7 years ago
3,304 posts

well i think it also messed up links in likes like if someone likes a comment but not sure i saw you just added so cant be used thought u could include , in next version im not sure it is a comet chat issue as much as its a username verses profile name issue
cometchat uses user name witrh the . you dont direct the the page correctly
i often have to ttell people to remove tyhe . from their name

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soaringeagle
head dreadhead at dreadlocks site
glider pilot student and member/volunteer coordinator with freedoms wings international soaring for people with disabilities

Strumelia
@strumelia
7 years ago
3,602 posts

I seem to recall that underscores in user names in JR used to make the profile invisible to others. Maybe that got fixed though, can't remember exactly.
Soaring, just wondering- have you tried out the Jamroom SimpleChat? I've been using it for almost a year now- I dropped Cometchat after my switch to https. My members like the JR chat a lot, after the usual initial period of several days to get used to it. I imported like 200 smileys too, most are animated.

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@soaringeagle
7 years ago
3,304 posts

i use simplechat on www.freedomswings.org but on www.dreadlockssite.com i think the cometchat works better for us

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soaringeagle
head dreadhead at dreadlocks site
glider pilot student and member/volunteer coordinator with freedoms wings international soaring for people with disabilities

@soaringeagle
7 years ago
3,304 posts

and yea would be good to have _ disabled too then - is ok for hyphenated names

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soaringeagle
head dreadhead at dreadlocks site
glider pilot student and member/volunteer coordinator with freedoms wings international soaring for people with disabilities

@michael
7 years ago
7,692 posts

When a user signs up with a profile name like:

one.point.one

The points are removed for their profile url, it becomes /onepointone/

If someone else tries to signup with the points in different locations, they get told that profile url is already in use

on.epoint.one

@soaringeagle
7 years ago
3,304 posts

yea but see thats the diference between usernames and profile names
cometchat for instance uses usernames that links to that users default profiles
other places the same issue
and now i think the forums now lists both username and profile name if the 2 are different and i bet in that case the .'s screw that up too
why cant the same rules that apply to profiles apply to users
spaces in names rather then periods

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soaringeagle
head dreadhead at dreadlocks site
glider pilot student and member/volunteer coordinator with freedoms wings international soaring for people with disabilities

@paul
7 years ago
4,325 posts

Is this with the CometChat Jamroom module?
If so, and their module is not compliant with the way JR works, you need to take it up with them.

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@soaringeagle
7 years ago
3,304 posts

it is
and i swear i did bring it up with them but it was a long time ago (this has been a ongoing issue forever) i just thought since you made the change to dissalow you could do the same with .

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soaringeagle
head dreadhead at dreadlocks site
glider pilot student and member/volunteer coordinator with freedoms wings international soaring for people with disabilities

SteveX
@ultrajam
7 years ago
2,583 posts

What about institutional logins? All of those logins which are first name.lastname@institution.com?

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@soaringeagle
7 years ago
3,304 posts

thats the diference between logins, and usernames
the 2 are unrelated

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soaringeagle
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SteveX
@ultrajam
7 years ago
2,583 posts

Not if you use name.lastname because that is what you do at work.

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@soaringeagle
7 years ago
3,304 posts

but that is what makes links with the name.lastname not work

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soaringeagle
head dreadhead at dreadlocks site
glider pilot student and member/volunteer coordinator with freedoms wings international soaring for people with disabilities

@brian
7 years ago
10,136 posts

brian:
You can use the Banned Items module to ban periods in user names.

Marking this as solved - this isn't a JR issue.

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Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
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updated by @brian: 11/18/17 12:33:44PM

solved disalow periods in user names

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