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General Community => Site Comments, Issues and Concerns => Topic started by: Patric on February 15, 2023, 07:02:31 AM

Title: Changing my display name
Post by: Patric on February 15, 2023, 07:02:31 AM
Hi!

I would like to change my display name. I tried like mentioned here, but I really can't find.
https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=555492.msg3937462#msg3937462

The Account Settings page allows me to change my e-mail, password, secret question, A2F, etc. But I can't find the option to change my display name.

Could you help me please?
Thanks
Title: Re: Changing my display name
Post by: Arantor on February 15, 2023, 07:08:30 AM
It should become available at 10 posts, I believe.
Title: Re: Changing my display name
Post by: Steve on February 15, 2023, 07:21:07 AM
And it's 10 posts as a spammer prevention.
Title: Re: Changing my display name
Post by: Patric on February 15, 2023, 07:54:15 AM
Thanks to you two.
Title: Re: Changing my display name
Post by: Arantor on February 15, 2023, 07:55:39 AM
At least in SMF you *can* change it, in a lot of platforms now it's not changeable.
Title: Re: Changing my display name
Post by: Patric on February 15, 2023, 08:00:00 AM
Quote from: Arantor on February 15, 2023, 07:55:39 AMAt least in SMF you *can* change it, in a lot of platforms now it's not changeable.

I know that. I find it aberrant.
I even found a Web shop where you can't even change your e-mail!
Title: Re: Changing my display name
Post by: Kindred on February 15, 2023, 08:13:40 AM
I will note that what you just did is actually counter to the forum rules as well...   serial posting like that solely to increase your post count is not cool.
Title: Re: Changing my display name
Post by: Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen on February 15, 2023, 08:15:36 AM
Please avoid double posting for no reason. I removed a couple of the posts.
Title: Re: Changing my display name
Post by: Arantor on February 15, 2023, 08:21:22 AM
Well, it's a good thing that they changed their display name which was all they wanted, and I'm pretty sure y'all could have fixed this by now by decoupling all of the profile permissions from the post group since the only hard requirement was for not letting 0-9 change their signature.
Title: Re: Changing my display name
Post by: Kindred on February 15, 2023, 08:30:54 AM
well, sure, but - as you know, the more granularity that is added, the more people get confused with the settings. :P
Title: Re: Changing my display name
Post by: Arantor on February 15, 2023, 09:50:22 AM
You know that granularity was added in 2.1 though, right? It's literally there in the permissions page.
Title: Re: Changing my display name
Post by: Kindred on February 15, 2023, 06:09:07 PM
Lol, oops, tells you how often I lok at the permissions these days... :-*
Title: Re: Changing my display name
Post by: Arantor on February 15, 2023, 06:12:20 PM
Quote from: Kindred on February 15, 2023, 06:09:07 PMLol, oops, tells you how often I lok at the permissions these days... :-*

It was there in 2014 though... I seem to remember having a vocal opinion on it back in that era.