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Hi again folks. Everything was working fine in building my new groups.io site, till this morning when the site will no longer allow me to create a new # Hashtag. It comes back with the statement - 'hashtag invalid' ? And here was the title of the tag I was trying to create -?#Stan's-Quiz.

I thought it might be something to do with the make-up of the name so tried a couple of straightforward names, and still the same! Any thoughts?

Thanks

Jack(;>J

Hi
Some general hashtag tips and rules.?
No dashes, no apostrophes, no ampersands, no spaces.
See?

There may be a setting problem in your group, of course.

Frances

Frances,

See

Heh, humorous to the point I suspected satire at times. But not necessarily accurate for Groups.io's implementation.

Perhaps the Help text needs to be more explicit about which characters are allowed. Right now all it says is "a word or unspaced phrase".
/static/help#hashtags

In Jack's example both the hyphen and the apostrophe are suspect. "Unspaced phrase" may have been intended to mean words without punctuation. As in #ThisHashtagUsesCamelCase - CamelCase is like Title Case (each word has an initial capital), except there are no spaces.

Shal

Interesting one this. As mentioned on my initial Post, the title of the Tag I was trying to create #Stan's-Quiz - illegal. So played about a bit by simplifying the tile - such as - Stans-Quiz - still illegal, Stans_Quiz - still illegal, StanQuiz - still illegal, Stan - legal ?and subsequently #Stan created. Great. Now I could edit back to my original #Stan's-Quiz and accepted and working fine. Very strange?

And thanks for the responses.

Jack(;>J

Jack,

So played about a bit by simplifying the tile - such as - Stans-Quiz
- still illegal,

Interesting. In my test group the hashtag was accepted with a hyphen, but not an apostrophe.

Now I could edit back to my original #Stan's-Quiz and accepted and
working fine. Very strange?

More than strange, the discrepancy between what's allowed when you create the hashtag versus when you edit it seems like it must be a bug. So I'm CC'ing this to support.

I'm inclined to think that both hyphen and apostrophe should be legal, as they are normally used in word construction rather than as word separators.

The principle of least astonishment favors them both as well, I think. With the possible exception of people who sometimes omit the lefthand space when using hyphen as a substitute for a dash- like this.

Shal

Hi again Shai and gang,

Emm - still not right. Having created the #Stan's_Quiz (underscore _Quiz - Shai not as you have indicated, my fault) when I attach #Stan's_Quiz as part of a Post the #Stan's_Quiz jumps into the subject line to become an addition part of the subject (not highlighted as normal with other #'s). Other #'s are fine. Removed the original #Stan's_Quiz from the Post and changed to #Stan-s_Quiz and attached again to the Post. Everything fine - didn't jump into subject description

And. Just to see if it was particular to this new message, I posted out this message and created a new test message with #Stan-s_Quiz and some other #'s. Worked fine?

I will keep the #Stan-s_Quiz as is and see how I get on with my next post using it.

Nothing's simple - is it? But hey - c'est la vie!

Cheers

Jack(;>J
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