Re^2: Add "is this username available" instructions to "Choosing a username" page in PM FAQ (horse shoes)

FWIW searching titles for your mother while restricting to user section only would show both variants ( but also supersets like your weird mother )

Edit: knowing about similar usernames might be of interest though.

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Re^3: Add "is this username available" instructions to "Choosing a username" page in PM FAQ (title search) by tye (Sage) on Oct 15, 2015 at 04:32 UTC
Yeah, one can build a form that submits to super search to do a title search only for users. The instructions could instruct you to use ' ' not '_' for such searches. I don't know if such a form would trigger the super search protection against constructing URLs that actually trigger a (potentially expensive) search so instead just load the form and require a subsequent button push. A tiny bit of coding could overcome the "don't just do the search" protection and also replace '_' with ' ' automatically. - tye	[reply]

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Re^3: Add "is this username available" instructions to "Choosing a username" page in PM FAQ (title search)
by tye (Sage) on Oct 15, 2015 at 04:32 UTC

Yeah, one can build a form that submits to super search to do a title search only for users. The instructions could instruct you to use ' ' not '_' for such searches. I don't know if such a form would trigger the super search protection against constructing URLs that actually trigger a (potentially expensive) search so instead just load the form and require a subsequent button push.

A tiny bit of coding could overcome the "don't just do the search" protection and also replace '_' with ' ' automatically.

- tye

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