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Help & Guidance => Site/Forum Help => Topic started by: wolfsquad on June 17, 2016, 09:51:56 pm

Title: Forum Name
Post by: wolfsquad on June 17, 2016, 09:51:56 pm
I hope this is in the right place.

I've noticed that my forum name was once "Togami" but it's not that anymore. Now, it's my ingame username. And the option to change your display forum name is no longer there on the forums.
Is this something that has to do with the update to the forums? Is this temporary (how long do you think it'll last) or permanent?

I hope I don't start something with this it's just that I think my ingame username is pretty ugly (It's an account I didn't make, I got it from a friend who didn't want this account anymore and I asked to have it and they did give it to me) and I honestly like my forum name to be "Togami".
Title: Re: Forum Name
Post by: Hakumi on June 17, 2016, 09:52:54 pm
It might have something to do with the forum update o;
Title: Re: Forum Name
Post by: Warriorstrike on June 17, 2016, 09:57:30 pm
Yep, Raz is doing website maintenance. You may notice a few odd things around the forum for a bit while he works. Right now, you'll notice all of the forum nicknames have been changed to the user's username. There's nothing to worry about. Hopefully we can move things back around after a while, so please have patience with us. c:
Title: Re: Forum Name
Post by: CosmoFursi on June 17, 2016, 09:59:34 pm
Eeeh I just noticed that wow

ew now I'm stuck as babystrit for a while, haha.
Title: Re: Forum Name
Post by: Raddlegoose on June 17, 2016, 10:11:15 pm
 Wow, well this is awkward. O-o
Title: Re: Forum Name
Post by: Morqque on June 17, 2016, 10:56:32 pm
I actually like this
Title: Re: Forum Name
Post by: Reaper on June 17, 2016, 11:00:51 pm
Ive noticed it to, but my ingame name is the same as my forum name so the only difference is the f is lower case.
Title: Re: Forum Name
Post by: greenart6 on June 17, 2016, 11:07:17 pm
*Burns forum name in the background*

Well, I'll just have to deal with this for the time being, I guess. As long as we can change them again later it's fine xD
Title: Re: Forum Name
Post by: CrazyCatLady on June 17, 2016, 11:07:49 pm
I like this better too. As much as I miss my newer name, it's nicer to see the name that people use ingame and eliminates the "find me ingame as: ___" we stick on our profiles. I'd like to see the actual ingame username and a nickname integrated into the miniprofile with this update.
Title: Re: Forum Name
Post by: Morqque on June 17, 2016, 11:10:14 pm
It's also waaayyy less confusing.

Title: Re: Forum Name
Post by: hugrf2 on June 17, 2016, 11:13:23 pm
Oh boi. Look at the 2. LOOK AT THE 2. DB IT IS EVIL. PURE EVIL. BURN IT. //inhales number 2//
Title: Re: Forum Name
Post by: Jango_Fett on June 17, 2016, 11:16:03 pm
now everyone knows who i truly am



a kitten
Title: Re: Forum Name
Post by: Shazadah on June 18, 2016, 06:51:47 am
Well I hope it's temporary, I liked being called NaruWolf far better than my weird ingame user that I'm not even sure half of the community knows how to pronounce correctly haha.
Title: Re: Forum Name
Post by: Feareh on June 18, 2016, 08:32:09 am
 My secret identity has been reveled -covers up my username-
Title: Re: Forum Name
Post by: BradiBytes on June 19, 2016, 02:11:31 pm
  Oh my, I noticed this too. Right when I was 'bout to change my name on here. Haha.
I hope it can get fixed soon. If not, it's still no big deal. ^^
Title: Re: Forum Name
Post by: Ruby1234 on June 19, 2016, 02:26:57 pm
I actually like this

I like this better too. As much as I miss my newer name, it's nicer to see the name that people use ingame and eliminates the "find me ingame as: ___" we stick on our profiles. I'd like to see the actual ingame username and a nickname integrated into the miniprofile with this update.

It's also waaayyy less confusing.

It's great 'n all to have the names match the in-game ones, until you consider that I created this account when I was 12. Being 17 now, I don't exactly enjoy the user, also considering that I've stopped going by "Ruby" a long time ago. I set the display name to Phloxenfree, since the account I actually use in-game is Phloxenfree, which matches my user everywhere else.
I don't use the Phlox forum account because it seems impractical to start over when you've already built so much up.
People are going to message this account if they need anything from me, not my newer one, since this is the one that is linked in a bunch of places.

Anyway, as already mentioned, I'm sure it's temporary.

It just doesn't work for everyone this way. xD
Title: Re: Forum Name
Post by: CosmoFursi on June 19, 2016, 02:36:58 pm
Same with me, though. babystrit isn't my better-known account, SSFireWolf is.

I didn't start the forum things on SSFireWolf, cause I was a derp and messed it up x3

But yeah, the name thing right now doesn't work out for everyone, haha.
Title: Re: Forum Name
Post by: wolfsquad on June 19, 2016, 02:43:06 pm
Yea.

Not to mention, someone said it eliminates the whole "Find me ingame as ####" from our profile.
However, there could have just been a field to put our ingame username(s) when editing our profile, just like we now have for Tumblr/Youtube/Twitter/etc. profiles.
Exposing everyone's possibly cringe-worthy and/or embarrassing username like this isn't the best way to go, since some people wouldn't use the feature and some others would.
Title: Re: Forum Name
Post by: Redlinelies on June 21, 2016, 10:21:10 am
As this is a help thread and it has already been answered I will go ahead and lock it.

We will see what happens, I think the aim is to possibly put display name option back but we cannot guarantee anything. We'd have to do some testing and see if smf 2.0 handles display names any better than 1.1 did.

We will see what happens.