Username Changes

[blindreper1179]

Re: Username Changes

can you change mine to blindreper1179, thanks a bunch.

[Hammer Snuggle]

The crux of the issue being developer time. The process takes a ton of manual entry per user, and I have been directing all my free time into other site projects.

Assuming most of this is SQL, could you not write a query or stored procedure to do all of it? Or is there some other aspect of the name change I'm missing?

[choof]

Re: Username Changes

the other aspect would be that the site is badly coded

[_TAG_]

Re: Username Changes

I too would like to change my username. Seems that pretty well everyone here regrets the name they chose when they were 12.

[devonin]

Re: Username Changes

I too would like to change my username. Seems that pretty well everyone here regrets the name they chose when they were 12.

I'm good.

I might, in retrospect have capitalized the d, but whatever.

[ilikexd]

Re: Username Changes

Seems that pretty well everyone here regrets the name they chose when they were 12.

I might have the stupidest "12-year-old" username on this site but it's grown on me for some reason.

[Shadow_God_10]

Re: Username Changes

I might have the stupidest "12-year-old" username on this site but it's grown on me for some reason.

....Your "12-year-old" username is stupid? mine is pretty ridiculous... then again it's grown on me like yours I guess

[rushyrulz]

Re: Username Changes

Assuming most of this is SQL, could you not write a query or stored procedure to do all of it? Or is there some other aspect of the name change I'm missing?

As it currently stands, 91 tables contain usernames and about 15 are missing userid completely within the table and just have the username. The next course of action is to grab the username from the vBulletin tables as it should have been so username changes are safer and don't require so many table tables in the future.

Most of the table contain usernames are either from the pre-vBulletin days, or internal tools that are in use today.

Let's just say it's complicated.

[MarioNintendo]

Re: Username Changes

Since my last response in this thread, the tests on _.Spitfire._/Nullifidian have been more or less a success. We now know we can actually offer safe username changes. The crux of the issue being developer time. The process takes a ton of manual entry per user, and I have been directing all my free time into other site projects. I know this year has been the busiest yet for me, and it seems everyone on staff is feeling in the same boat. I'll try to provide more info soon. Don't hesitate to bug me for updates.

Hey Prawn, thanks for the reply. Don't sweat it. I'm one of the people against username changes, honestly, because I think it messes with the archiving process of the forum (e.g. username changes for the poster, but doesn't change the nicknames, quotes, etc. in the actual posts). I just wanted confirmation on whether or not this is planned to happen, because I think it's a more complicated issue than just coding. There should be a serious discussion about whether or not this is a feature we really want in the first place.

[Charu]

Re: Username Changes

Still like my name today, so we good fam

[rushyrulz]

Re: Username Changes

Hey Prawn, thanks for the reply. Don't sweat it. I'm one of the people against username changes, honestly, because I think it messes with the archiving process of the forum (e.g. username changes for the poster, but doesn't change the nicknames, quotes, etc. in the actual posts). I just wanted confirmation on whether or not this is planned to happen, because I think it's a more complicated issue than just coding. There should be a serious discussion about whether or not this is a feature we really want in the first place.

Make a new thread with a poll. I think most people are in favor of having the option to change their antiquated usernames, but at least we could get a discussion going.

[MarioNintendo]

Re: Username Changes

Make a new thread with a poll. I think most people are in favor of having the option to change their antiquated usernames, but at least we could get a discussion going.

done

[JenovaSephiroth]

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I wasn't that great at making usernames in 2003 lmao, I'd definitely be down for a username change. Very few people even know me by this name anymore.

[blindreper1179]

Re: Username Changes

I wasn't that great at making usernames in 2003 lmao, I'd definitely be down for a username change. Very few people even know me by this name anymore.

but it's what we know you by.

[JenovaSephiroth]

Re: Username Changes

but it's what we know you by.

Hmm.. this is a good point, too

To explain a little more though, it's just that my interests have changed a lot since back in the day (and, by association, my choice of username) and I kinda wanna align it more with how I've been known everywhere else online for a while now. On the same token, I wouldn't mind having something showing what my username used to be, so people who know me by the old one wouldn't get too confused.