Handle rules

Your handle is your page address: servr.gg/low-orbit. It is also the thing people will type from memory, so the rules are deliberately narrow.

Links and names

Every page has two kinds of address, and most have only the first:

• Its own link, given to it when it first goes live: eight characters such as servr.gg/k7x2m9qa. It never changes. There is no i, l, o, 0 or 1 in one, because those are the characters people misread, and every one has at least two digits, so no link can spell a word.
• A name, on a paid plan: servr.gg/low-orbit, four characters or more on Pro and three on Network. While the page has a name, its own link forwards to it. When the plan ends, the name is released and the page goes back to its own link.

The rules below are about names — the part you choose.

Format

These are enforced today, everywhere a handle is accepted.

So Low Orbit!! becomes low-orbit, and --Edges-- becomes edges.

One handle, one community

A handle connects to exactly one community, and no name can be another page’s own link. The database settles it: two people asking for the same name in the same second cannot both get it. Claiming a name that is already taken changes nothing and tells you so, and your page stays where it was.

Reserved names

Anything that could be mistaken for part of the product itself is refused at setup rather than reclaimed later: help, app, api, www, admin, support, status, blog, about, terms, privacy, settings, login, signup, discord, servr, and the rest of the routes servr.gg serves.

Not enforced yet

These are decided policy but not yet implemented. They are written down here so the rules are settled before the first collision, not after.

Confusable collisions. l/I/1 and 0/O are trivially swapped, so a handle is also compared by its skeleton — the form with confusable characters folded together. l0worbit and loworbit resolve to the same skeleton and cannot both exist.

Use it or lose it. A handle on a page nothing feeds any more — the bot can’t see its Discord server and none of its game or voice servers answers — with no page views, becomes available again after a dormancy window. The window is not fixed yet; it will be stated here before it is applied, and an owner will be contacted before anything is released.