Change Username

[Belefur]

The dream of any Fur Affinity user is to finally be able to change their username on the site. Many have to leave their old account and create a new one just to be able to have an updated username, this is sad and old fashioned, changing username should be the most basic thing on any site, I don't know why there is still no such option for the users.

 

[quoting_mungo]

It's not a feature yet because the original code and database weren't designed for it (or, honestly, according to best practice, for the database). It's on the development roadmap, as you can see here, but there's other things that have to take precedence - such as fixing the unexpected issues that arose after the last update, and before that (delaying the higher-resolution/profile banner update as well as the rest of what was to be the Fall Update) securing the site against future attacks after some dickheads decided it'd be funny to mass upload CSEM and photographic gore.

 

[Belefur]

It's not a feature yet because the original code and database weren't designed for it (or, honestly, according to best practice, for the database). It's on the development roadmap, as you can see here, but there's other things that have to take precedence - such as fixing the unexpected issues that arose after the last update, and before that (delaying the higher-resolution/profile banner update as well as the rest of what was to be the Fall Update) securing the site against future attacks after some dickheads decided it'd be funny to mass upload CSEM and photographic gore.

So changing your username will never be an option?

 

[quoting_mungo]

So changing your username will never be an option?

That's not what I said. It's on the development roadmap (which I linked), but the way FA was originally coded makes it non-trivial to implement, especially without downtime (and nobody wants extended downtime). It will still happen, it's just not as easy as it might seem at a glance.

 

[RestrainedRaptor]

So changing your username will never be an option?

It might be eventually, but it'll probably be 2+ years and it'll cost money, so you might as well just bite the bullet and make a new account now.

 

[luffy]

it'll cost money,

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