Can an COOL user, YES ME change his username?

^_^ · Post by **^_^** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:27 am

On Vbulletin thingy you can...
So can you do that here?
MUAHAHAHAHAHA I EDITED

Qloof234 · Post by **Qloof234** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:51 am

No.

I'd like to see that kind of feature, but we don't have it here.

^_^ · Post by **^_^** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 9:32 am

Aww
*smashes ^_^ with hammer in head*
wait, im ^_^

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 10:41 am

I think the administrator has the possibility to:
- change someone's username, and/or
- let users change their own username.

So if your not happy with your username, you always can ask Patrick. However, if users have the possibility to change their own usernames, and you would be on Monday ^_^, on Tuesday >###<, on Wednesday 1000%, and on Thursday Sinterklaas, it would be pretty messy, isn't it?

^_^ · Post by **^_^** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 11:54 am

Sinterklaas.

Blast!10 · Post by **Blast!10** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:54 pm

The admin can use the administration panel to let users change their usernames. phpBB2 does support that option, MS just hasn't enabled it.

On my forum, for example, everyone is free to change his or her username.

~xpr'd~ · Post by **~xpr'd~** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:39 pm

I think it'd be nice, for one, because I'm tired of being xpr'd now that everyone knows I'm TD but I can't get into my TD account :V

Maybe it would be available every six months or something. That would work well.

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 2:41 pm

Marinus wrote:I think the administrator has the possibility to:
- change someone's username, and/or
- let users change their own username.

So if your not happy with your username, you always can ask Patrick. However, if users have the possibility to change their own usernames, and you would be on Monday ^_^, on Tuesday >###<, on Wednesday 1000%, and on Thursday Sinterklaas, it would be pretty messy, isn't it?

MS isn't that free to do them everyday

Nobody · Post by **Nobody** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 2:45 pm

I told you before somewhere an admin on another forum changed his name from aaaaajon to aaaaajom in order to evade a really random rule on a forum game.

It was on a PBsandwich2 forum or whatever.

Post by **billy bob** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:13 pm

User-names have been changed in the past (like this for instance).

Nobody · Post by **Nobody** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:18 pm

OOH! I want my name changed to Midnight Synergy!

Post by **billy bob** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:29 pm

Nobody wrote:OOH! I want my name changed to Midnight Synergy!

Already taken.

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:29 pm

I want my name changed to "Dlcs18" with a capital D.

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:31 pm

I want to change my name to MyNameIsTyteen4a03.

derp

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:41 pm

tyteen4a03 wrote:MS isn't that free to do them everyday

No, actually I meant, if users can change their own username, there would be maybe someone who changed it everyday. MS has to change the setting only once.

~xpr'd~ · Post by **~xpr'd~** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 4:04 pm

I want my name to be Manic-xpr'd *hides*

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 4:07 pm

Marinus wrote:
tyteen4a03 wrote:MS isn't that free to do them everyday
No, actually I meant, if users can change their own username, there would be maybe someone who changed it everyday. MS has to change the setting only once.

Name change has to be done manually by an administrator on vB/phpBB.

Currently at 3.studIo forums we allow a name change per 6 monthes.

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 4:24 pm

No, not "has to be done", but "can be done"

The other possibility is as Blast and I said, that the admin switch on the option: Allow users to change their username.

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 4:27 pm

Marinus wrote:No, not "has to be done", but "can be done"

The other possibility is as Blast and I said, that the admin switch on the option: Allow users to change their username.

I see what you mean. (Yes, I haven't used phpBB2 for years

)

On IPB you could limit the users to change their display name (is separated from login name) x times per a certain time. Maybe phpBB2 could do the same?

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 4:34 pm

display name (is separated from login name)

On our family-forum there are only usernames, just like this forum, so the displayed name is the login name.

Edit: And the admin can only switch the option ON or OFF. Not once in 6 months or so.

^_^ · Post by **^_^** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 4:58 pm

I want my username to be changed to "Forum King"

DEVINT · Post by **DEVINT** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 5:28 pm

I want mine to be Burntscale.

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 5:32 pm

Marinus wrote:
display name (is separated from login name)
On our family-forum there are only usernames, just like this forum, so the displayed name is the login name.

Edit: And the admin can only switch the option ON or OFF. Not once in 6 months or so.

It's PHP, so we can of course modify the code to limit it.

new name idea: iAmALoser

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 6:52 pm

You mean: It's sort of programming-language, so you can change the software?

Actually I don't know anything about it. Years ago I tried some programming with Basic, Pascal and C++, but I forgot most of it, and although I know how to change things in the admin-panel, I have no idea how to change the software.

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:31 pm

Marinus wrote:You mean: It's sort of programming-language, so you can change the software?

phpBB2 is written in PHP (duh) so modifying the software should be easy (not counting the differculty)

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:07 pm

I believe that. Riding on a bike is also easy, but not for those who never tried, or maybe never have seen a bike.