In-reply-to » So, @prologic, having a slash on the nick breaks mentions. Is there a consensus on which characters are allowed on nicks, or just about anything goes? Evidently I am not going to be exchanging that many twts (if anything at all) with someone with a slash on their nick, but it would be nice to either set some "standard", or fix mentions (again?!) to accommodate.

My $0.02 worth (cc @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org and @movq@www.uninformativ.de on standards) is we should stick to the already accepted and conventional standard of ^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*$ or equivalent.

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