(September 27, 2018 at 8:32 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:(September 27, 2018 at 1:41 am)Aliza Wrote: What's up with AF and the changing of user names? Is there a culture of changing usernames on a whim? This is was rarely done on TTA so I never needed to adapt to this. How do you keep track of who is who? How many changes do you get?
You can change your user name up to once a year (365 days), unless there are exigent circumstances. For three months following a name change, the forum displays your prior name beneath the new one in order to give people time to adjust to the new name. In addition, you can go to a user's profile and where it says "username changes," click on the number, and it will give you a list of that user's prior user names.
Jorm pretty much hit the nail on the head, though your old username is displayed for 6 months above your posts.
Here's an example of a username log: https://atheistforums.org/misc.php?actio...y&uid=2197