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Hi all.

I'm thinking of upgrading my existing php old punbb forum into .NET version. Today I finally downloaded and gave it a try, so that it would feel comfortable in my production environment (Win2003R2 + IIS6 + MySQL 5.0.61).

First discrepancy found was missing "Port" parameter from installation screen and ConnectionString consequently. Quite alot of people are using MySQL not on default port, so I had to patch Install.aspx manually to fix it.

The second was quite a surprise to see that in every table the UserId field is specified as VARCHAR(200) instead of expected INT(n). For this reason, table UsersInRoles created in UTF-8 database gave an error about maximal key length exceeded (which is 333 = 1000 bytes, worst case for three-byte characters in UTF8 encoding scheme).

Is there any humanly possible reason for user identifiers to NOT be integers but VARCHARS of 200 characters? 

Thanks in advance.