Cookie Thread Act 3: The Cookie Strikes Back

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#28684

oo i see

#28685

sushi

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#28686

Well we could try it i guess lol - could be a decent experiment

I’d have to silence the old account though yeah

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#28687

I’ve had to ask a lot of people to make new accounts recently and it makes me sad

Discourse sucks

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#28688

whats the bug
i remember my name got changed on the old forum

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#28689

We could also anonymize the account if wanted, like we did with Anstreim’s old account

Makes the username something like Anon[random string of numbers] and doesn’t cause bugs iirc. The account can’t be used anymore though

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#28690

Past and future quotes sometimes show as coming from nobody (or the wrong person), old notifications/pings are inaccessible sometimes, and the username can never be used again by anybody

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#28691

did this happen on the old site too

i never noticed it when mine was changed

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#28692

theres still a ton of broken quotes on the old archive because alice and chloe swapped names for a bit

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#28693

Yeah
I think the bugs mainly occur when anybody with a username has the string of the old username (so if we changed your name to Arcy, and someone made a new account like Arctic2), that’s when things get messed up

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#28694

Yeah its really annoying lmao

Thanks arete

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#28695

With Eliza we took a gamble because i could just prevent people from using the old username, because nobody will ever go by that unless they’re a transphobic troll

And we deemed it necessary enough to change

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#28696

well that seems a bit more conducive to breaking things than just one person having a username changed

#28697

how big does the string need to be though

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#28698

Shrug
Likely anything that contains ‘Arctic’

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#28699

I still don’t fully know what causes the bugs so we disallow name changes as a “better safe than sorry” unless it’s necessary, like a deadname or something that doxxes

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#28700

I don’t think it’s too much to ask to have people make a new account, but if everyone REALLY wants the option to change their username for less serious reasons i suppose we could allow it - i just expect annoying bugs to pop up and i’d rather just avoid that entirely

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#28701

Too real

#28702

Rip ArcticResolve

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#28703

smart choice
now the greatly coveted username “otterpopd2” is still available

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