Timeline for Is it good or bad practice to allow a user to change their username?
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| Dec 22, 2017 at 15:37 | comment | added | maaartinus | @allo Sure, there'll be always some exceptional cases. But this doesn't make this arbitrary limit invalid. If it saves you some amount of manual work, then it's useful. I guess, this limit could save some 90-99%. Maybe a different limit would work better... just try it and collect some figures. +++ Account removal: Sure, but that's not the topic here. | |
| Dec 22, 2017 at 13:18 | comment | added | allo | A single change is some arbitrary limit and there will always be people who either need more changes or do not understand it. And on the other hand there are even sites which do things like allowing you to change your birth date once. Just in case you had a typo while registering? I would find it more important to have a change to remove it completedly if you want to. | |
| Dec 21, 2017 at 18:20 | comment | added | Jeff Y | Yes, but that wasn't my idea and that's how things have been done since before my time. This is part of the reason for this question in the first place; so I can improve it :) | |
| Dec 20, 2017 at 4:02 | history | answered | maaartinus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |