Names must contain only alphanumeric, dash (-), and/or underscore (_) characters
Length must be between 1 and 100 chars (inclusive)
Multiple dashes in a row (e.g. --) are not permitted
The actual reality of Discord channel creation is a bit more complex. Empirically, there
are numerous (undocumented?) cases where an input channel name does not fail to create
a channel, but the channel created does not have precisely the same name as the input. For
example:
Multiple dashes in a row are converted into a single dash
Space and tilde are converted to dash
Tab and newline are removed
All other symbols are removed
For our purposes, this is too complex to deal with, and we will fail to validate any input
that does not result in creating a channel with the same name as the input.
The following criteria must be met:
The actual reality of Discord channel creation is a bit more complex. Empirically, there are numerous (undocumented?) cases where an input channel name does not fail to create a channel, but the channel created does not have precisely the same name as the input. For example:
For our purposes, this is too complex to deal with, and we will fail to validate any input that does not result in creating a channel with the same name as the input.
https://github.com/richfromm/slack2discord/issues/24