On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Elena Williams <ele....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Apparently some weirdness can be caused by having email addresses as
> usernames in django, though I'm not sure specifically what this is.

> Does anyone know these cases?

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> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] <
> cal.leem...@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:

>> (imo) Allowing spaces in username just isn't a very sane approach.

>> Rather than telling the user to choose a username, why not make them
>> login with their email address instead? Users are less likely to forget
>> their email address, and if anything, it would be less error prone than a
>> username would, especially one with spaces.

>> By all means, you can allow users to have spaces in their alias /
>> nickname field, but allowing them to login with it might not be the best
>> approach.

>> Hope this helps!

>> Cal

>> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Paul von Hoesslin <
>> paulvonhoess...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> I'm puzzled with this too. Did anyone manage to find a solution to
>>> resolving spaces in usernames.

>>> Generally a user, these days logs in with their email - that's
>>> predominately how I've setup all my django projects. People don't remember
>>> usernames. It is legacy, facebook connects with emails, so does gmail and
>>> the rest of the world. Username really has fallen back to a NickName /
>>> Alternative / Alias kind of field. You'd use it if you knew that in your
>>> application people wouldn't want their real, full names to be displayed.

>>> On Friday, June 12, 2009 4:08:12 PM UTC+2, Wiiboy wrote:

>>>> On Jun 12, 6:55 am, Marco Louro <mlo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > As long as you trim start and trailing spaces, there shouldn't be any
>>>> > problem, but personally I wouldn't use spaces in usernames at all.

>>>>  Why not?

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