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At 11/7/06 11:05 AM, SonicFreak122 wrote: Ummmm... Seriously. How do you change your name?

http://newgrounds.com/gold/editprofile.php

Never changed my Username and porlly will never change it, so fire away and don't ask questions, i'd say.

i dont mind it at all. but i understand that many users will and all that i have to say is , "sucks for you :P !"

Well i think this is a good idea tom!

or at least that's what I think :)

Good point.

I don't want to change my name, I'm happy the way it is.

I think that maybe you could give a warning to people that if they want to change their name, they should do it then, before they are locked, and if someone wishes to have a name that was previously taken by someone who never comes on the site, then it can be changed, like when people had to get rid of the underscores.

Either that or people can just deal with the dead links =/

Remember you have two names. Your username and your display name.
(eg. When it says 'Adam Philips (chluaid)' on submissions, chluaid is the username and Adam Philips is the display name) You can always change your Display name.

What would happen to the new kids who create total bullshit names when they were young, when they get a few years more experience and want to change their name but keep their stats?

I had a total arsewipe name the first time I joined, since then I must have changed it about 5 times and I still reckon I'll do it again in the future.

I think whatever you decide you've got to remember that people will always want to change their aliases

i'm fine with my current name, its the only one people recognise me by, and i'm willing to keep it because of that.

and how will you get to someones page, will thee be a button where the current "view profile" button is now?

or will i have to type in the url myself?

I'm not reading through nine pages, but I'm going to suggest making it so when you change your username, it changes the URL, and if you link to what it used to be, it re-directs. Only problem is, people would probably abuse the feature and steal as many URLs as possible. So I guess it is a dilemma. :(

At 11/6/06 08:26 PM, TomFulp wrote:

The question is... Do we allow users to change their names at this point? If you change your name, you are essentially changing your URL, meaning all existing links to your page will become dead links.

I wasn't aware we had the option of changing our nyms in the first place. Heh.
As far as the problem of deadlinks go, is it really such a problem? Yeah, people outside
of NG who link to specific pages at the NG site might find it a royal bother, but the person
most hurt by something like that is the person who would change hir nym on a frequent basis.
Unless, of course, you're suggesting that there are NG members who are such jerks that
they'd flip names just for the twisted joy of creating dead links so as to give the NG servers
busy work.

I suppose if you and liljim (or whoever codes for the site) wanted to be extra nice to people
outside of NG it might be possible to write a script that keeps track of nym changes and
redirects to the appropriate page when someone uses an outdated URL. My experience with
a site that does not allow nym changes is that when a person really wants to change hir nym
the person creates a new account and either migrates the old material to the new account
or simply abandons the old account. Would that create less or more mess for NG than
finding a way to allow folks to still change their nyms?

And thanks for the headsup. I'll give some thought to it as i'm kinda tired of the nym i
currently use here.

That's not really a problem to me. I've never been a great fan of changing my username every 5 seconds (or every month lol).

I was going to change my username name was a joke but I will keep it like this.

Save yourself the trouble. Notify all users of the lockdown, then go for it. It's a feature I myself have never used before. That's probably the same case with the vast majority of users.

It's not like you won't be giving everyone something better in return =]

Oh dear, I don't mind having username lockdown.
As someone said. Why don't we just have a display name?

Sorry if this has already been suggested, but what about a static name that you gave your account that your URL would be based on (which would be unchangeable), and a display name that is shown on the forums, your submissionss etc.?

At 11/7/06 11:26 AM, Fim wrote: I think whatever you decide you've got to remember that people will always want to change their aliases

Ooooh yeah, after reading some past I definitly agree that they want to change their names </Sarscm>.
I'm ok with the lockdown, but what will the porr Tanner do? (I remember he used to change his alias 30 times a week)

At 11/7/06 06:17 AM, Wonchop wrote: I reccomend asking people like Channel Cat (creator of Sheezyart) about how to handle this kind of thing.
Also I see you're not dead. Always good.

You fell for that?

I wouldn't mind either way because I like my username but might change it in the future

Just have a 'username' and a 'nickname' a user name with the url (tomfulp.newgrounds.com|) and a nickname to use on the forums. IF you really want to change it that is.

just link the urls to the user id# instead of the name. it's just as easy to type in numbers and to link to 'em as well as letters. and if people don't like it then lock the names. i've had my username since i signed up here years ago on newgrounds and to me personally, the changin' of usernames is pointless and considerably childish. if a person doesn't have a name that they'd like to be known as on here permanently after bein' a member for awhile then they're probably to emo for themselves and need to get a life. sure it's a cool feature to be able to change your username on a whim but there's really no point too. hopefully i'm not the only one that feels this way. oh and tom if you need any maintenence or security people don't hesitate to pm me. i'll work at a very reasonable rate of pay. newgrounds deserves to be able to have everything that a big business deserves considering the fact that newgrounds.com is one of the biggest and mostg visited websites on the entire internet.

At 11/7/06 04:44 AM, squeakytoad wrote:

At 11/7/06 04:34 AM, RupeeClock wrote:
That's fine for small artists who don't have anything worthwhile in their profiles dude, if we wanted a namechange on here, it would mean making a new account and abandoning flash, music, portal awards, exp, b/p points, forum posts and more.

My main point was, millions upon millions of DeviantART users suffice with only one unchangeable name. Why can't the NG users?

HE JUST EXPLAINED.

Deviantart is almost nothing like Newgrounds!

We NGers build up stats, and we like to be creative in what we do - sigs, profile pics, profiles, names.
Newgrounds has a good formula, you only have to take away a couple of minor features and it ruins everything.

dumbass.

How about instead of making the url state their username, how about making it state the persons actual name, then in their page they can change their alias if they wish, but their name stays the same?

now i would just like to point out that i only just grasped that but...
why dont you make it so that then you have your own unique number linked to ur account, not ur name so that then even if u change ur username ur account(ie:pms secrets etc)are kept the same as a link but all the other info is changed.

just a thought

and also to waste time lol :)

I'm actually quite happy about this, a lot of users change their names and it means that I lose track of which user is which quite easily.

Well, I dont really mind the change to much seeing as I like my username but I wont like it forever and I'd still like to the chance to change it.

Perhaps have a permanent username for purposes of userpage, e.g. mr-eulogy.newgrounds.com but also have an alias for Forum use that is attached to this account, but can be changed at will.

So I could be 'mr-eulogy.newgrounds.com' but have a little box where I can select my forum name, which would perhaps be the same by default or anything else if I so desired.

Fixed username, variable forum name! Thimple, thurely.

I'm quite afraid of commitment.

Do it.
No one needs a different username, It just confuses me.
Like a reg is JoJoNuts, then HardCock, And Im like WHO THE FUCK IS HARDCOCK
An there like JoJoNuts, And Im like no wai.
Then they change it to DoubleBrow, AND IM WTF LOL
Basically your username is what people no you by.

I say go for the lockdown. It isn't really necesary for users to change their name.

what r ya talking about