"Register New DJ" should have more helpful errors.

[echarlie]

e.g., if you try to register using an existing DJ name, it just says "DJ names must be unique". While true, it should explain "Another DJ already uses this name; please pick a different one" or something like that.

Perhaps we should offer a way for multiple DJs to share an on-air name (assuming one is inactive or something).

[mutantmonkey]

Is it really that unclear what "DJ names must be unique" means? I'm a bit skeptical that someone would be confused by that.

I don't agree about sharing on-air names; I think those should be kept universally unique.

[echarlie]

"DJ names must be unique" is an instruction for the field, not a useful error. We've had issues where this has apparently been ambiguous: see the issues we had 2 years ago with the DJ name "Maddie".

I'd like DJ names to be globally unique, but I can think of enough exceptions where allowing them to be non-unique is okay, or even desirable. Consider "Hickory Dickory Dock", which has been "owned" by multiple DJs over the years; since on-air names are show names, I can't search for Hickory Dickory Dock shows from a particular DJ, and while we might want have a one-to-many relationship from air names to DJs, allowing non-unique air names might fill the gap between mandatory sign-in and our current situation.

[mutantmonkey]

I don't understand how an instruction for the field is not a "useful error." What is a "useful error" then? "This on-air name is already in use"? I don't want validation for this field to display errors that totally differ from all the other fields in the app.

Eventually DJs and shows will be split, that's just not going to happen in the next release.

[echarlie]

I'm willing to close this. It is solved by better end-user documentation or spliting DJs from shows, neither of which is germane to this.