i say !WorldNews & !world_news should be (~symlinked to ?) the same !wordnews community unless exceptions (for different /c/...) permitted by administrators or upvoted somehow. With this, uppercase is no problem & readability would be nice.
Adding upper case letters to addresses would indeed increase what the "_" does, I don't think we should add them. Your method also requires manual intervention which is just not a good idea.
You would have to ban more than just the hyphen, so might as well leave it as is
That's the only character allowed, so everything else is already banned. If you try to create a community it says "lowercase, underscores and no spaces".
It can be useful as a word seperator. If its a copy, instance admins can remove it if necessary. Also, it seems inconsistent to allow _ in community names, but not in usernames (if thats what you're suggesting).
That precisely is one of the things I found it irrelevant for, what do you want to use a word separator for? It makes sense in names because there can be a million users, but with communities it's not the same, we don't need 5 communities with similar names.
Imagine this: /c/league_of_legends /c/leageof_legends /c/league_oflegends /c/leagueoflegends I just don't see the point and I don't think it makes it so much easier to read, since anyway most of the time you will be reading the display name, not the address.
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