Hi, I post this feedback for the german speaking user.
This user mentioned, that his nickname is shortened to âTaxifahrer_in_Hambuâ, while this is his fully expanded OSM name:
Do you see any way to surround this limitation?
BTW: Thanks for the great work and signup with OSM
For some reason my username here on discourse is user1(someone asked me to change that, but I missed that notification. email me: amanda@technomancy.org). Since OSM usernames can change, âsyncingâ might be complicated.
While the database does contain all lengths between 3 and 255 there is no length over 128 with more than 10 users.
There are around 5000 active accounts over 60 characters though, around 1650 over 80 characters, and around 75000 that are only 3 characters. Many of the very long ones may be spam.
Hmm another thing seems to be the normalization of the OSM user names. My nick !i! becomes _i1 and the label shows it in the right way. Not nessesary a big issue, but to mention (and itâs autocomplete) rely on the (slightly wrong) discourse nickname.
That seems related with no special characters as part of the nickname.
I keep surprising myself about how osm.org is so permissive with nicknames and that hasnât resulted in major issues with the DB, APIs or external apps
Is the problem with user names longer than 20 characters solved in meantime or will OSM names longer than that still be cut down to 20 when registrating here?
@Firefishy
Any news regarding this issue �?.. sorry to bother you but I believe it would be helpful if every interested user would be able to register with their OSM name and not only those with names shorter than 20 characters and not containing certain unicode.