@/tri-angle put it well
i am someone who experienced this situation, i wanted to change my hopscotch user to nobody and it was taken
then i tried incognito, which was also taken
then i did my current username, and ive come to like it
but that didnt mean i wanted the other account to be gone so i could have the username
just because someone doesnt publish doesnt mean they dont use the account
yes, that may be the case most of the time, but how would you feel if your account was randomly deleted because you hadnt published in a while?
And when deleting accounts there may be a week to restore it in case you somehow very hypothetically accidentally deleted your account. During that week no one can take your username.
And maybe you can choose the keep the projects or not, like if you want to save your projects but have no other use for hopscotch
i understand that this is one of the more controversial topics that’s been brought up and as such, everyone’s gonna have some strong feelings about it. i know i definitely have some thoughts, and i know that some of you disagree with them
and that’s okay! the point of having discussions is to bounce ideas off of other people, and learn something from them. even if that ‘something’ you’re learning is just how to open-mindedly listen to them
after all, theres a reason why that’s part of guideline #1
it’s awesome seeing y’all work through the disagreements and miscommunications yourself --looks like it’s solved at the time of posting this which is great!-- but just something to also keep in mind for everyone just now arriving to the discussion
i’m gonna leave a small slowmode on for a bit to help with this; just ensures that everyone’s taking a little bit extra time to thing about their replies and make sure nothing can be perceived as hurtful again
i think that it should be on the hopscotch website- i remember going on it, but forgot what it’s called- and not on the app. even with the confirmation, since its so big it might be too easy to do
I feel like I shouldn’t of made this topic…
Tbh I’m sort of mad with the slowmode but I understand why it’s here. Also, at least you don’t have to wait a big long month like the tag list topic thing. (Dw I’m not that mad about any of this)
I didn’t think people would argue this much… Some of these ideas are good, some I don’t really agree with.
@FearlessPhoenix I really apologise for the controversy and anything slightly bad anyone has said, I’m sure everyone else would be apologetic too.
I really wanted the username ‘894’ just like my forum username, I don’t know if that user has published or not though.
Did you know?
I actually had this topic as a draft for a day or two, that was because, 1. I didn’t know how much controversy this was gonna have, and 2. I felt a little scared if this was going to get against the guidelines.
It’s not your fault! It’s not your fault that everyone’s acting so horrible, I was really surprised reading all of this because this was definitely not the kind of discussion I would think to see. I think everyone who’s talking about embarrassment and unprofessionalism should tell that to themselves. You wish you could’ve seen my face while reading this.
Adding to the discussion a bit; I think the conclusion I’m coming to is that it’s bad to username snipe to take away rare users just to not use them because whether you like it to not they exist and are a thing people look for, but they shouldn’t be forced to change or delete anything since that’s not very moral (it isn’t to write rude messages in this topic but here we are) but I understand where your coming from and it’s frustrating to see that a username you want is taken.
i don’t think that’s the case - people use these usernames because they like it, and it’s not because they took it and doesn’t use hopscotch anymore that we’ll gonna do something to give these “rare” usernames to other people
i can see someone losing their pass to that account but wanting that account and that username to stay for nostalgia but i dont understand why people would want to collect them
Some of these ideas are good, some I don’t really agree with.