How to fix "confusing name" error

So you've been getting a message from tillerinobot along the lines of Your name is confusing me. Are you banned? (And you are in fact not banned 😛) If you just want to get this fixed, skip the next section, otherwise: read on:

Why does this happen?

This can happen because the name the bot receives your username using the bancho-IRC-gateway and in the irc-protocol spaces are not allowed in usernames. So when your name contains a space it gets replaced by an underscore. But underscores are also allowed in osu! usernames, so basically the bot has no way of knowing if an underscore in a username is actually an underscore or a space. This means that sometimes the api-call to fetch user-information fails since it doesn't match your actual username.

How to fix this

Luckily this is quite easy to fix. The only thing you have to do is tell the bot your osu! user-id. The only true unique identifier out there. So what is my osu! user-id you're asking? Well the easiest way to find out is to login to the website and click on your username in the top right menu: and than look at the url of the page you'll be getting on: . Notice how it ends with a number (2756335 in my case). This is your osu! user-id. Now the only thing left is send the bot the following message ingame:

!fixid <your id>

so in my case it would be

!fixid 2756335

You should receive a response like this:

That's it! If you got that response everything should be working for you. If not please tell so!