MyBB Community Forums

Hey there!

Because my forum is based around a gaming community, users must login with their steam account. However, most people who use steam have some kind of characters in them (*&^^$!@# <,.>/ etc ) which do not display on my forum.

does anyone know how i can let these be displayed?
thanks!

U could edit that plugin u used. Also what is ur steam url add id/3ed/.

MyBB is hard-coded to reject certain special characters unfortunately.
I don't think MyBB properly sanitizes usernames in all places, hence the restrictions on usernames.
In theory, you could remove those checks to enable users to use any character in their username, but this may open you up to security issues.

Though I'm not sure how the Steam integration works. If it doesn't need to set the MyBB username, you may be able to workaround this MyBB limitation.