29930130 Posted November 17, 2017 CID Share Posted November 17, 2017 I'd like to change the display name on my account. How do I do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA3LE Posted November 17, 2017 CID Share Posted November 17, 2017 4 hours ago, touch29917 said: I'd like to change the display name on my account. How do I do that? Just send me a PM with the name you'd like to use. I'll change it for you. Heads up: The reason it's not enabled where you can do that yourself is because I need to manually run a program to globally edit the results database entries to reflect the change. In the future those will be tied together so you can change your username yourself. It's definitely become a more frequent question so that (among many other things) will be definitely built into the site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA3LE Posted November 17, 2017 CID Share Posted November 17, 2017 to PM me hover over my name and click "Message" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29930130 Posted November 28, 2017 Author CID Share Posted November 28, 2017 HI I have sent you a PM more than a week ago. I haven't heard back. I requested a new display name in the PM. Can you have a look please Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pgoodwin1 Posted November 29, 2017 CID Share Posted November 29, 2017 @CA3LE. See above Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShakTib Posted November 30, 2017 CID Share Posted November 30, 2017 @CA3LE - I don't know if implementing name change for users to control would be a good idea -with great power truly comes great corruption... because humans are dumb... And why is it a frequent name change request? Maybe set rules like "1 name change every 6 months" like.. seriously, how indecisive are people? >.> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29930130 Posted December 2, 2017 Author CID Share Posted December 2, 2017 @CA3LE I don't want to be a pest, but I still haven't heard back. to ShakTib , my choice of display name was an unfortunate one and I'd like to change it to a more appropriate one. Nothing indecisive here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA3LE Posted December 3, 2017 CID Share Posted December 3, 2017 On 12/1/2017 at 8:04 PM, 29930130 said: @CA3LE I don't want to be a pest, but I still haven't heard back. to ShakTib , my choice of display name was an unfortunate one and I'd like to change it to a more appropriate one. Nothing indecisive here I'm sorry @29930130 I'm really backed up with requests and yours was a little more work to take care of. I need to write a program to change usernames in the database. I can easily grant people permission to change their own display names right now. The issue is that your old display name is all over multiple databases across TestMy.net. We want all of that data to follow you. Currently I have to manually from the command line search your username, query what databases you're associated with (what hosts have you tested under), then run commands on each associated database to change oldUserName to newUserName. You have 9 providers plus your host and country... the master DB and other lesser databases also have to be reflected. When I noticed your request I was like, "Dude. For the amount of usernames I've changed I could have written the DB username change program like 20 times now! This person has a complicated database history... great scenario to build it around." -- you just happened to catch me right in the middle of building and racking some new hardware. When I have a spare 20 minutes I'll whip up the program and take care of the few other name change requests I have right now. Sorry to those who are waiting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29930130 Posted December 4, 2017 Author CID Share Posted December 4, 2017 Hey @CA3LE No worries and Thank You I didn't realize it was that much work involved and anyway I was more concerned that the issue had fallen between the cracks. I'm using TestMy pretty frequently to get a log of my speeds to have as a basis for discussions with my ISP I really appreciate you taking the time and and explaining this too. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShakTib Posted December 5, 2017 CID Share Posted December 5, 2017 On 01/12/2017 at 10:04 PM, 29930130 said: ... to ShakTib , my choice of display name was an unfortunate one and I'd like to change it to a more appropriate one. Nothing indecisive here Ahh! No! I was talking in general. Wasn't speaking of you in any negative manner, sorry if it seemed that way. I see in different forums users request name change a lot. Some forums strictly stick with "no" answer. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29930130 Posted December 5, 2017 Author CID Share Posted December 5, 2017 Hey @ShakTib No offense taken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShakTib Posted December 6, 2017 CID Share Posted December 6, 2017 @29930130 but what if the offense was given in a form of a cake? mudmanc4 and Gcomptech 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29930130 Posted December 6, 2017 Author CID Share Posted December 6, 2017 LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted December 6, 2017 CID Share Posted December 6, 2017 @29930130 Gcomptech 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShakTib Posted December 7, 2017 CID Share Posted December 7, 2017 Ha, glad you get the reference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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