Hashtags that start with a numeral don't work

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I’ve been using hashtags that start with numerals (example: #24hours), but I just now noticed that these hashtags don’t work.

Is this a bug?

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This is on purpose, since the hash symbol also means “number”, e.g. “item #24”. This is similar to how hashtags work on most other social platforms – they won’t be recognized when they start with a number.

Not sure if it makes sense to deviate from that standard, but I’m open to feedback.

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Oh, that makes sense. I wasn’t aware that your example was the standard.

I’m on Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram and Mastodon and they allow hashtags that begin with a numeral, so I guess I’m just used to being able to do that and it made me think that being able to do that was the norm.

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Hmm, maybe they allow it if the tag also has alphabetic characters, too? I did a quick test with just numerals on Mastodon and Twitter and saw they didn’t parse the tag. But maybe we could support it in that case, i.e. #24hours but not #24.

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Oh! I didn’t think about it that way! That makes sense. I have had success with the tags #24HourComicsDay and #24HCD specifically, but I never used a hashtag with only numbers.

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