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kerneis on March 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Users don't like social login

Except for the many, many websites that have stupid restrictions like: "sorry, your username should be lower-case letters only".

beaumartinez on March 21, 2013 [–]

It's not necessarily stupid—it could be so that your username can be included in URLs (like Twitter). "Lower-case only" is stupid though.

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