# Changing one's "username"

**URL:** <https://forum.podcaster.community/t/changing-ones-username/197>\
**Category:** Site help\
**Created:** [June 22, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/changing-ones-username/197 "2021-06-22T19:45:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![craigconstantine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.podcaster.community/craigconstantine/32/2322_2.png) [@craigconstantine](https://forum.podcaster.community/u/craigconstantine)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/changing-ones-username/197/1 "2021-06-22T19:45:14Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Heavy Hitter Sports: Pre-The Legend Lives On](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/heavy-hitter-sports-pre-the-legend-lives-on/177/5):

tl;dr: This turned out to be _vastly_ more complicated than I’d expected. I’ve reached out to the Discourse support team about it.

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# wait wat?

There’s a 3-day grace window in which you could have changed your username. (Look! A new configuration knob I’d not know about… `*sigh*`) After three days, it prevents all users from changing their username.

Ok, easy! …I can just change that setting to a big number and then Mark can changes his . . .

# oh, that’s bad…

One’s username turns out to be very deeply stapled to your identity in the system. If you change your username, you disown everything you’ve done. Your posts would remain written-by the no-longer-used “markhoch”, and the new “hoagie” (or whatever you changed to) would be a new user who begins anew.

So now I see why you’d want that three-day-window kept small; Because of the train-wreck-disownership I described above, you [as a new user] don’t want to go very far before you disown everything you’ve done.

For added complexity, I don’t know what that would do to the subscription system either. ☹

@JuleKucera @Hoagie

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**Author:** ![craigconstantine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.podcaster.community/craigconstantine/32/2322_2.png) [@craigconstantine](https://forum.podcaster.community/u/craigconstantine)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/changing-ones-username/197/2 "2021-06-22T19:53:40Z")

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oh.

Turns out that I can change your username at any time.

_boop_ you are now @Hoagie

…and it did everything correctly. You’re posts are still owned by you, etc.

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**Author:** ![Hoagie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.podcaster.community/hoagie/32/120_2.png) [@Hoagie](https://forum.podcaster.community/u/Hoagie)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/changing-ones-username/197/3 "2021-06-22T21:22:14Z")

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Craig, thanks. You’re more powerful than you initially thought. 😀

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**Author:** ![craigconstantine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.podcaster.community/craigconstantine/32/2322_2.png) [@craigconstantine](https://forum.podcaster.community/u/craigconstantine)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/changing-ones-username/197/4 "2021-06-22T23:17:36Z")

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Thanks for sticking with it through the bumps in the road! 😆

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**Author:** ![system](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.podcaster.community/system/32/548_2.png) [@system](https://forum.podcaster.community/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/changing-ones-username/197/5 "2021-06-27T19:45:23Z")

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