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1. MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2017 04:22:32 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

   • Ben Roberts
   @dissolve Even #StatusNet could do it actually .) Just like how you can supply an http/https URL when subscribing.
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2017 04:10:00 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

     • Jabber and XMPP related group
     • GNU Social
     • Ben Roberts
     I think we should do whatever !xmpp does with usernames. There are many lessons to be learned there (unicode treachery etc.)
     
     Also, yes I think URLs, as it is in !GNUsocial already, should be possible to mention. Not just acct: style URIs.
     
     I think it's important to remember that some users may want just their domain name as identifier for example, which btw makes parsing/prioritising a bit trickier if usernames can have dots in them ;) But I think there are solutions.
     
     And on that topic, usernames can be @ but don't support '.' in GS. If supported we'd probably prefer the local username if not appended by '/'.
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2017 04:14:04 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • Ben Roberts
     @dissolve As for personal preference I like ascii-only characters for usernames and anything referencable or used as visual identifier for humans. Maybe even more restrictive, like just ([a-z][a-z0-9]+), case insensitive. But that is probably old-fashioned and conservative. Works, though.
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2017 04:23:41 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • Ben Roberts
     @dissolve Oh and when you're already subscribed, at least, there shouldn't be any issues with UX since a good UI should have suggestions from your already established subscriptions based on some easy text-search on nick/fullname etc.