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Reply To: On sign up – Username (required) is there a way to change that text to Fullname

@henrywright

Moderator

11 years, 5 months ago

The username serves multiple purposes:

It’s needed internally for use in URLs etc. First name and surname won’t play nicely in this context because you can’t have spaces etc in URLs.
It’s used as a ‘friendly’ unique identifier. What happens when you have 2 members named John Smith? How do you private message the first John Smith without private messaging the second?
There are probably more purposes I’m missing?