Registration harder than anticipated

[Digital_Doctor]

I tried to register twice with the name: Digital Doctor

I kept getting this message.

Please correct the following errors: "Name in wrong format"

The above error was unhelpful, but I guessed that the space was the problem.
I changed the space to an underscore, and it went OK.

Is it helpful for administration purposes to have no spaces in names ?

This is just an FYI.

 

[Digital_Doctor]

Is it just me or the links on the wiki don't work ?

The Apprentice
Valeria
Yoda
- when I click on these three, I am not taken to their pages, I remain at the wiki index page.
- using FireFox, latest version.

But these do work ?
Talim
Amy

FYI.

 

[Jaxel]

Username Regular Expression Match:

^[A-Za-z0-9][\w\-\.\@]+[A-Za-z0-9]$

A username must START with an alpha-numeric character
A username can only have alpha-numeric, underscore, dash, period, @
A username must END with an alpha-numeric character
A username must have between 3 and 15 characters.

We were using this format in the past due to compatibility with MediaWiki, back when we were still using it. MediaWiki really wasn't designed for user_id; and it's users were stored through usernames... thats why this was done. It has just sort of hung around since then and I haven't seen the need to change it.

As for the wiki... bonus character wikis haven't been ported over yet.

 

[Digital_Doctor]

Username Regular Expression Match:

^[A-Za-z0-9][\w\-\.\@]+[A-Za-z0-9]$

A username must START with an alpha-numeric character
A username can only have alpha-numeric, underscore, dash, period, @
A username must END with an alpha-numeric character
A username must have between 3 and 15 characters.

So, no Xenforo setting to let the user know about these restrictions ?
They just have to guess ?
Some people might just give up.

Xenforo complained about the UserName but wouldn't tell me why.
Nor did it tell me some basic rules to start with.

 

[Jaxel]

Okay... the error message has been updated to be more descriptive.