On 03/06/2016 05:08 PM, fr33domlover wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 16:06:55 -0500
> Stephen Michel <stephen.mic...@tufts.edu> wrote:
>
>> Q: Do we allow users to change their vanity name, or is it fixed?
>> A: For MVP, fixed. In the future, I don't know.
>>
>> Q: If people can change their vanity name, what do we want to do with
>> the old name? Allow someone else to claim it, or keep it as a redirect
>> to their new name?
>> A: I see arguments both ways. If we allow others to claim it, links to
>> vanity names lose their permanence. If we keep it as a redirect, it's
>> possible to abuse the system and take up large numbers of available
>> vanity names. It's also easier to run out of (good) names, and there
>> might (?) be confusion if user A changes their vanity name and user B
>> takes user A's old name. These problems are solvable, but they add
>> additional complexity.
>>
>> Q: If people can't change their vanity name, what's the point in having
>> a separate vanity name?
>> A: Well, a login name might be something ugly, or it might be their
>> email address, which we don't want to *require* people to expose.
>>
>> Another implementation is Twitter or reddit's: your log in name and
>> your vanity name are the same thing, and are linked to an email address
>> (which you can use to recover your username if you lose it). Twitter
>> allows you to modify this name ("username"), reddit does not. When you
>> change your Twitter username, as expected (since they're the same
>> thing) it changes both your login name and your vanity name. It does
>> not leave behind any redirect trail.
>>
>> Generally, I don't like the idea of being able to change your login
>> name. I do like the idea of being able to change my vanity name (at
>> some point I want better than smichel17), but I don't like the idea of
>> others being able to change their vanity names, which is confusing for
>> me (from experience -- League of Legends lets you change your vanity
>> name (there called a "Summoner Name") and when people do that on the
>> forums, it can be confusing to figure out who is who anymore). I don't
>> know how the way people use Snowdrift.coop will differ from the way
>> people use the systems I've previously mentioned, so we may not need to
>> worry about the same things.
>
>
> Agreed, unlike in IRC where changing a nickname means just temporary
> confusion,
> changing a nickname on a website means URLs aren't permanent. But let's
> examine
> some popular website. Does githu8 let you change your username? What happens
> to
> the old one? Does it break your repo clone URLs? If it does, I think we can
> assume this setup (name can be changed and the old one freed/blocked, whatever
> githu8 does there) can work for us too.
>
> Anyone ever tried changing username on githu8 or other popular site and can
> share insights?
>
> --fr33One insight: my music teaching business listing on Google originally was defaulted to a URL that was location-related which I didn't think was permanent. Now, having moved, the URL references the wrong location and Google won't let me change it at all, and that's awfully frustrating.
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