This was because spammers liked to out a lot of Unicode in front of their names, making it hard and confusing for drivers/mods to tab their names when they spam. So it was removed only at the beginning for the name.Being able to put symbols in the front of your username was just removed, maybe someone broke something while doing that? (Server still down, reposting for the new page. 12:39AM CST)
theyre here to avenge aegislash o__OPokémon Showdown is offline due to a DDoS attack!
Bear with us as we freak out.
(We'll be back up in a few hours.)