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After I saw the great idea "Poster's local time" tooltip which is added a couple of days ago, I thought a similar solution for the confusion with changed usernames as being one who dislikes people changing their usernames but thinks this possibility won't be cancelled in this forum.



And if you like this idea, please implement this not only in postbits but everwhere else like Reputation votes pages, threads lists' "Last poster" columns and many others which I cannot think now.

May take time but i would really back this feature!

That would require storing all old alias' in a database wouldn't it. Something which isn't done and would just take up space.

Edit: See MenthiX's Reply to forum requests
PS: Dead Thread

And slow it down, if it has to search the database for the username, and then search another table for its old aliases. And if you times that by 10 (or more) then its bound to be a performance decrease, unless wdz uses cacheing, but it wouldn't help that much imo.

Good idea, but not ideal.

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Originally posted by .Lou
http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=17700

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If you paid attention, one tab in my screenshot displays that thread anyway and I took Discrate's old name from that thread also But I want this feature in order not to visit that thread all the time when I suspect about someone's name, I can simply hover my mouse on name to see if s/he had another name before.

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Originally posted by GiantSpider
That would require storing all old alias' in a database wouldn't it. Something which isn't done and would just take up space.

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I don't think it would take too much storage because there is a few people who change their name, and they change it maybe once a year, or at most once a month, heh? And most of the people didn't change it from the beginning which means no tooltip.

What about it only loads if you hover over it?

Yea, but there would still have to be a query for each username, regardless of whether they had. It wouldn't take up space but it would add to the time element.

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Originally posted by john-t
What about it only loads if you hover over it?

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That would require fairly complicated ajax trickery, for fairly little benefit.

How about making it mandatory to put your old username in your signature for a month.

So if I changed my name, then added to the end of my signature would be "Formerly known as saralk"

its good enough as it is IMO, so long as WDZ remembers to update the thread