[ SECRET POST #2930 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2930 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 076 secrets from Secret Submission Post #419.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[diet_poison]

a la...everywhere, right?

I wasn't even aware that you were allowed to change your name on Tumblr. That seems patently ridiculous to me.

[othellia]

FFN lets you change your username, but also has a permanent link that uses an ID you can't change.

So if I were to change my FFN name, this link would break:
https://www.fanfiction.net/~othellia

But this link would stay intact:
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1153473

I wouldn't have as much of a trouble with tumblr's name changes if all the reblog links were based on a perma-id instead of the changeable username.

[diet_poison]

That makes sense. But I still wish people would not change their names on sites like that - it seems very confusing. (Or at least, not do it often/on a whim)

[othellia]

Yeah, I like the option of being able to change your name but not all the time.

When I first started browsing the interwebs, I'd just use my middle name and birthyear, but after a couple years I wanted to distance myself from such identifying information. This was around the time I was into Naruto and was also kind of angsty, so all my screennames were things that would've probably made emo!Sasuke proud. Then I started to grow out of that and I've been Othellia for almost nine years now, with a couple of alts whenever I want an account that's not connected to my main presence.

[kippi]

There's actually a way to set up a javascript redirect that will seemlessly fix links to your old url. My old url was refreshingenchantress, and several months back i switched to ertherarmy, but this link here will work fine: http://refreshingenchantress.tumblr.com/post/81049500438/terracosmonaut-tales-of-series-dress-up . I got the code for that from here.

Unfortunately, no one ever fucking using redirects, so you're screwed and stuck hopping over about 50 different "i changed my url" placeholders.

[(Anonymous)]

Dreamwidth and Livejournal also allow names changes. But they charge $15 for the privilege, so people only do it if they REALLY mean it. I prefer this arrangement to either "free name changes anytime" or "no name changes ever."

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

LJ also changes all user name tags to the new one, so you don't get broken links. I don't know what would happen if you imputed the URL of the old name though.

I suspect, due to coding basis, DW works the same.

[diet_poison]

Yeah, that makes a lot more sense actually. Sometimes it's really necessary or important.