I would like to change my forum username.
According to the Discourse support threads, this ability is a system wide setting to allow users to change their user names.
The setting is called “Username Change period” and it impacts every forum user.
This is why I haven’t raised a support ticket. User has no option to change username? - support - Discourse Meta
Why does he want to change his forum user name is probably the first question that comes to mind?
Wont this break stuff such as threads and comments in the forum?
Well, I have realised that because the SyncroMSP forum has read access turned on to the entire Internet (and might be kept on the wayback machine too). Anyone out there can browse the SyncroMSP forum, and click on my username and find my full name. Then they find out which RMM I use, and with a little research find the business name I use and then use that information for their own purposes.
That might be marketing to me, which isn’t terrible and I can handle that.
Or it might be to carry out some sort of targeted cyber attack against my business or my customers (if they determine or know who they are).
That would be terrible, so therefore I would like to reduce the risk and change my name and username in the SyncroMSP forum.
Alternatively, closing off public read access would also be a solution too.
At the very least private should be the default setting. If certain categories are going to be used for documentation and public announcements, then the should be public and read only.
I’m pretty sure you can change your forum username right now. Click the icon in the top right, then the person icon on the tab bar, then preferences. At the top under Username you should be able to alter your username there.
