PLEASE let us change our usernames! That's what everyone wishes! Make usernames changeable and make a button that will take us to a list of previus usernames.

This has been suggested many times and will not be implemented. The codebase simply is not designed to handle that.

And beside, what's even the point ? Changing a password,yes,that is needed, but usernames ?

Just make a new account.

People might change their username so many times, that other people might not know who they are! (like in a collab)

Wiki: Is it possible to change my username?

The answer is no, for those reasons.

I agree with cheeseeater! No one's going to know who you are by the time you change your username like 15 times…or you could just tell everyone each time, haha But, that'd be terrible 0.o

kingofdallamas wrote:

I agree with cheeseeater! No one's going to know who you are by the time you change your username like 15 times…or you could just tell everyone each time, haha But, that'd be terrible 0.o

Exactly! All kinds of spam, and plus, what if people look at your stuff, but don't follow you? They wouldn't be notified.

If you want to change your username, simply
Make new account
Remix to copy over all of your projects(or at least the ones you want to keep)
Delete all of the projects off of your old profile
Make a project on both profiles to announce the switch

It's a lot of work, but that's the workaround. I think easily switching is a bad idea, because a lot of work means you won't do it often, making you careful to settle on a name that works.

Another thing: Do other sites allow this? All of the ones I know of don't. I'm sorry, but the very idea seems very unwieldy. Tell me more than 5 sites, and I'll recount, but I'm pretty sure most you could name have major problems.

Failord wrote:

kingofdallamas wrote:

I agree with cheeseeater! No one's going to know who you are by the time you change your username like 15 times…or you could just tell everyone each time, haha But, that'd be terrible 0.o

Exactly! All kinds of spam, and plus, what if people look at your stuff, but don't follow you? They wouldn't be notified.

If you want to change your username, simply
Make new account
Remix to copy over all of your projects(or at least the ones you want to keep)
Delete all of the projects off of your old profile
Make a project on both profiles to announce the switch

It's a lot of work, but that's the workaround. I think easily switching is a bad idea, because a lot of work means you won't do it often, making you careful to settle on a name that works.

Another thing: Do other sites allow this? All of the ones I know of don't. I'm sorry, but the very idea seems very unwieldy. Tell me more than 5 sites, and I'll recount, but I'm pretty sure most you could name have major problems.

I agree; Someone suggest this on the suggest.scratch.mit.edu ,and it was not approved for moderating reasons.

steam allows changing of display names while keeping the actual username and everything else the same and displaying a list of former nicknames. honestly, it works quite well, but scratch and steam are pretty different

Yeah, this will never happen. Just like you can't change your own name. Well you can, but that requires tons of paperwork.

Failord wrote:

kingofdallamas wrote:

I agree with cheeseeater! No one's going to know who you are by the time you change your username like 15 times…or you could just tell everyone each time, haha But, that'd be terrible 0.o

Exactly! All kinds of spam, and plus, what if people look at your stuff, but don't follow you? They wouldn't be notified.

If you want to change your username, simply
Make new account
Remix to copy over all of your projects(or at least the ones you want to keep)
Delete all of the projects off of your old profile
Make a project on both profiles to announce the switch

It's a lot of work, but that's the workaround. I think easily switching is a bad idea, because a lot of work means you won't do it often, making you careful to settle on a name that works.

Another thing: Do other sites allow this? All of the ones I know of don't. I'm sorry, but the very idea seems very unwieldy. Tell me more than 5 sites, and I'll recount, but I'm pretty sure most you could name have major problems.

I agree.

And on geocaching.com, you can change your username. I did, and I didn't have any problems.

Idc I like my username

TreasureChest wrote:

Idc I like my username

same. Put some thought in usernames people!

xlk wrote:

TreasureChest wrote:

Idc I like my username

same. Put some thought in usernames people!

I know I did. I spent like a half hour debating on my username.

Users could get in trouble and when a user tells the Scratch Team they might say UserA is being bad, but UserA changed their name to UserB and now there is lots of confusion and the user gets away with doing things. Also, your profile's URL might have to be changed which is a pain. I think it's best not to have this implemented.

I deny.

mitchboy wrote:

xlk wrote:

TreasureChest wrote:

Idc I like my username

same. Put some thought in usernames people!

I know I did. I spent like a half hour debating on my username.

same i never rush the username because if yuo do become well known you don't want this “oh do you know bobbyjoe48854UK944?..um im not sure the name is too strange” you want "do you know LOLWUT? Oh yes hes a good animator!

mitchboy wrote:

And on geocaching.com, you can change your username. I did, and I didn't have any problems.

Good example! But there are major differences between the way these sites work. Scratch is not set up for changing usernames at all.

curiouscrab wrote:

Users could get in trouble and when a user tells the Scratch Team they might say UserA is being bad, but UserA changed their name to UserB and now there is lots of confusion and the user gets away with doing things. Also, your profile's URL might have to be changed which is a pain. I think it's best not to have this implemented.

I deny.

It would be nice to change your username…

But curiouscrab has a point.

krish15 wrote:

curiouscrab wrote:

Users could get in trouble and when a user tells the Scratch Team they might say UserA is being bad, but UserA changed their name to UserB and now there is lots of confusion and the user gets away with doing things. Also, your profile's URL might have to be changed which is a pain. I think it's best not to have this implemented.

I deny.

It would be nice to change your username…

But curiouscrab has a point.

That's why they use your email, but then, there are still issues.