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by arxanas 4648 days ago
I haven't visited the website but

> lowercase or capital letter, a number, or one of these symbols _.@/-."

says "or" and not "and", so it doesn't actually seem like there's any issue so long as you include a letter. Then the only real restriction is the minimum of six characters.

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It doesn't say "and" but the front end JS won't let you proceed without a special char. But if you put the special char at the end it fails without explanation b/c a different page says you can't do that.

In other words, the sign up page text, the sign up page JS validation, the back end database, and the trouble logging in page ALL have different requirements just for the username.