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It's a bit "nanny state" esque.

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Originally posted by ahmetgns
If you paid attention, one tab in my screenshot displays that thread anyway and I took Discrate's old name from that thread also (Smilie) 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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Ah, alright. I didn't catch that

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Originally posted by saralk

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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"

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Indeed. That's too much work for nothing

Also, if WDZ plans to eventually update the forums, every little thing requested to be added will add to his long list of things to do to move things over, (and if he ever sticks to his promises) thus making the job take quite a bit longer.

Again, people are slightly seeing this as overcomplicated.

Easy way to do it: Add a "admin_comment" field to the database which is retrieved at the same time as the rest of the data. As long as the admin who changes the user name remembers to update this field (I don't know what the MyBB control panel is like, and how easy/hard it'd be to add this field in there) then it'd work quite well.

Of course it's open to abuse, but mods/admins don't do that.

Exactly what I thought, it would be just another textual field like the others, no complicated look-ups etc. I support this idea, since I too hate it when people just change names for the heck of it.

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Originally posted by GiantSpider
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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What time element? Tbh, 75% of all signatures used here take far more time to load than having just one more text field.

If it had to query the a database it would take longer than if it didn't. If it had to do that for every username per page.....

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Originally posted by GiantSpider
If it had to query the a database it would take longer than if it didn't. If it had to do that for every username per page.....

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Well if its a problem im sure we can get rid of it

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Originally posted by GiantSpider
If it had to query the a database it would take longer than if it didn't. If it had to do that for every username per page.....

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But it is already getting the record from the database anyway, so just getting one more field would make a neglible difference.

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Originally posted by ahmetgns
being one who dislikes people changing their usernames

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Making features for people with changed usernames will only promote more name changes.

Currently there are maybe 30 name changes per year, half of those are people you don't care about or people who don't post much anyway. IMO it's just not worth spending any time on this. Changed usernames should be an exception, there's generally no point on making features for exceptions. If someone changes his name and doesn't bother to put his old name in his caption or sig than it's his fault when i mistake him for a newb .

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Originally posted by MenthiX
Making features for people with changed usernames will only promote more name changes.

Currently there are maybe 30 name changes per year, half of those are people you don't care about or people who don't post much anyway. IMO it's just not worth spending any time on this. Changed usernames should be an exception, there's generally no point on making features for exceptions.

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Well said, that's exactly what I was thinking.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
since I too hate it when people just change names for the heck of it.

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How often does that happen? I'm not allowing any more silly "change your username day"-type events.