Cookie Thread Act 3: The Cookie Strikes Back

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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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#28704

Right.
I forgot about sushi.

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#28705

I said there could be other causes for the bugs!! I’m just pretty certain one of them is the reusing usernames thing

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#28706

Society if

#28707

PARK_SQUID
found may’s car

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#28708

I guess i could have changed her username and now i feel bad about it, but im just wary of potential annoying consequences, and I don’t want to set the prescedent that we allow name changes easily because it could lead to many people with short common strings asking too lol

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#28709

I’m sorry if i frustrated/hurt anyone with this decision

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#28710

chloe is too sympathetic so im not sorry if we hurt anyone with that decision

making new accounts is easy, free, and more importantly, lets you do mildly amusing things with both accounts

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