Can we seriously change this "User formerly known as" bollocks?

[Tiberius]

My point is that logically it is a waste of code space.

Considering that one can only change his name once a year.

I can understand using it as a means of recognition so that we cannot misconstrue a member due to a name change, but even then we always recognize each other because we spend enough time here getting to know one another.

I just gave you an example of how a user can change their name more than once a year, so your point and your logic are both invalid. It's not a waste of code space; the forum contains hundreds of thousands of lines of code. This takes up a few at most.

You might "always recognize" people who changed their names, but not everyone does. The main reason I thought it would be a good feature is because I came back to the forums after a short absence and found that a load of users had changed their names. Rather than have other people suffer the same confusion I did, I thought it would be simpler to have a feature which lets people know what members used to be called.

In any case, it's implemented now, and it's not going away unless there are actual major objections to it.