Same user name on Discourse as MusicBrainz? oops

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I just went through the simple, smooth process of creating a Discourse user ID based on following a link from MusicBrainz.org. It proposed a Discourse user ID “Jim_DeLaHunt” (with underscore) based on my MusicBrainz user ID “Jim DeLaHunt” (with space). It also prompted something like, “short, no spaces”. So I changed my discourse user ID to my typical short ID: “JDLH”.

Now I read that it’s an advantage to have the exact same user ID on Discourse and MusicBrainz. But apparently the name rules are different on the two systems, in a way which ruled out keeping my Musicbrainz user ID. And the prompt for the Discourse account creation didn’t suggest keeping the two names the same. So I ended up with something different.

I can imagine that unifying the user ID rules is one of the rough edges to smooth out, and I can wait for that. But I will need help changing my user ID on one or both systems in the future.

And, if keeping a unified user ID is really a benefit, it might be nice to find a way to suggest that on the Discourse registration dialogue. Since that dialogue is so admirably concise, I realise it might be hard to fit in such a suggestion.

I hope this feedback is helpful in smoothing out rough edges.
–Jim DeLaHunt

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Hopefully later tonight (after the #MetaBrainz meeting) we will make a change to the way Discourse authenticates against MusicBrainz and your username here should get automatically updated. We’re just awaiting some test results. :slightly_smiling:

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And SSO was just toggled on with tonight’s MB server release. If you log out and back in, your username should get updated. :pray:

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Has anyone with a space in a username tried that yet?

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Here! I was previously known as @augustjanse, but when I logged out and logged in to try out the new system I was magically renamed @August_Janse. I am actually a little displeased about my clean looking, chosen nickname being replaced with something much uglier, but I suppose there’s no other way if the usernames should be unified and Discourse won’t accept spaces. It seems to have worked well otherwise.

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Don’t worry, it’s not bad, it does look good.

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Worry, it looks bad :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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Me too. I just came back to the Discourse forum, and my user ID is now “Jim_DeLaHunt”. My user ID on musicbrainz.org has a space: “Jim DeLaHunt”.

So, it looks like the Discourse configuration has got better at maintaining a Discourse user ID which is derived from the MusicBrainz ID.

I wonder if the registration dialogue for registered MusicBrainz users who are coming to community.metabrainz.org the first time will still give them a chance to change their Discourse user ID, or if it will just present it to them as already determined. And, I wonder if the dialogue will explain that the Discourse user ID is based on the MusicBrainz ID, except maybe with underscore instead of space.

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Why not go with BumpyCaps (or NerdCaps, or CamelCaps, or InterCaps)? CamelCase

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That’s a question for Discourse, and it’s a small enough thing that we’re not going to do custom-coding for that. :wink:

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It won’t. Username is entirely based on the username at MB.o. This was one of the reasons for switching out the OAuth2 solution for this new Discourse SSO one. I thought I had disabled changing usernames with OAuth2, but apparently it was still possible when people signed up, so we went and did this instead.

I don’t think so.

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That is what happend to me. My posts are under my MB nick now, but citations aren’t.

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Hey @CatCat / @CatQuest, have you noticed you have used two different accounts here ? :confused:

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yes, those duplications will be removed. basically just moving names :D.
freso will look into making it so the wrong name’s likes are removed. sorry about that

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