Submitted 2 weeks ago by HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world to support@lemmy.world
I’ve tried to add a Display Name a dozen times now, settling on one with spaces and capital letters but nothing else other than alphanumerics. With everything I’ve tried, the “save” button seems to work (in that clicking it shows a pinwheel and changes its color), but no errors appear and the display name doesn’t take.
Is there a character limit? No special characters? Something else?
If I’m remembering correctly one of the limits is that you can’t have a name that matches a community name on the same instance. This makes it so that mastodon users can post to a community by tagging the community as if it were another user.
Ah okay. That isn’t the case for mine but I appreciate the example you knew.
Shouldn’t be an issue with contains, just exact matches.
MrKaplan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
what name are you trying to set?
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fired Florida Cop HCSOThrowaway
Thanks for taking a look at this issue.
BussyGyatt@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
if they tell someone else might steal it first!