Currently express-pouchdb is removing / from filenames before initializing db instances for the current request in

At Hoodie, we currently use express-pouchdb inside our server and we pass our PouchDB constructor. Our user databases have the format user/:uuid. The problem now is that if I start listening to changes of db user/abc4567 in Hoodie, then no changes will ever happen because express-pouchdb internally renames the database to userabc4567