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Changing names?

#1 Post by ColonelFritz28 » Sat Apr 15, 2023 6:04 am

Is there a way to change one’s username? If there is I can’t find it.
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#2 Post by theguyNav » Sat Apr 15, 2023 7:34 am

No, for some reason you aren't allowed to. My name is actually a typo.
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Re: Changing names?

#3 Post by ColonelFritz28 » Sat Apr 15, 2023 2:27 pm

Huh. Well, it is as I thought. Thanks!
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#4 Post by DarthPorg36 » Sun Apr 16, 2023 10:12 pm

It would be a nice feature to add. I wouldn't mind being able to chop the numbers off my username now that I realize there aren't a million people on this site, like I thought when I joined.
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Re: Changing names?

#5 Post by flash2015 » Mon Apr 17, 2023 1:13 am

This is probably a hard feature to add as I suspect the primary key for your user is your id rather than a surrogate key.
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Re: Changing names?

#6 Post by learnedSloth » Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:13 am

flash2015 wrote:
Mon Apr 17, 2023 1:13 am
This is probably a hard feature to add as I suspect the primary key for your user is your id rather than a surrogate key.
Quotes do have a user_id field. Yours is 80. I was going to point out that using the name as primary key would either limit their length or make comparisons linear time.
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Re: Changing names?

#7 Post by JECE » Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:13 pm

learnedSloth wrote:
Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:13 am
flash2015 wrote:
Mon Apr 17, 2023 1:13 am
This is probably a hard feature to add as I suspect the primary key for your user is your id rather than a surrogate key.
Quotes do have a user_id field. Yours is 80. I was going to point out that using the name as primary key would either limit their length or make comparisons linear time.
FYI, your webDip Forum user ID is not the same as your webDip user ID.

https://webdiplomacy.net/userprofile.php?userID=141016
vs.
memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=23147
See my full Profile:
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/profile.php?userID=17421

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Re: Changing names?

#8 Post by learnedSloth » Wed Apr 19, 2023 5:36 pm

JECE wrote:
Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:13 pm
learnedSloth wrote:
Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:13 am
Quotes do have a user_id field. Yours is 80. I was going to point out that using the name as primary key would either limit their length or make comparisons linear time.
FYI, your webDip Forum user ID is not the same as your webDip user ID.

https://webdiplomacy.net/userprofile.php?userID=141016
vs.
memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=23147
:shock: I can't think of any reason to separate those IDs.
They could be linked with a table, but after this revelation I wouldn't be so surprised if those profiles are linked by name.
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Re: Changing names?

#9 Post by JECE » Wed Apr 19, 2023 7:36 pm

The Forum is disguised very well, but it is basically a different website from the rest of webDiplomacy. The Old Forum, on the other hand, is fully integrated with the rest of webDiplomacy:
https://webdiplomacy.net/forum.php
See my full Profile:
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/profile.php?userID=17421

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Re: Changing names?

#10 Post by kestasjk » Thu Apr 20, 2023 1:06 am

YOu can change your username but only via a request in the mod forum where it tracks how many usernames you've changed etc. You can imagine if people could just hop around their username freely it would be quite confusing and there'd be potential for abuse e.g. mimicking others, changing after stabbing, who knows.

Yep the forum is phpBB skinned to look like webDip. The old forum is very quant and was made to be very efficient, but it would be silly for a webDip dev to write a whole forum with avatars, formatting, etc, etc just for webDip when there are open source forums already out there, that time is better spent improving the Diplomacy aspects of the site, but yes it does create a few awkward integration issues.

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