Aliases
10 months ago
Happy New year everyone!
Let me start mine off with a trouble ticket I recieved from the FA staff.
Clears throat
"For user privacy reasons we no longer transfer accounts or usernames. If the account owner deletes their account, however, you can make a new account with the same name once the deletion goes through.
Sorry for the inconvenience!"
So I wanted the FA account username
flute As you can see it was made now roughly 20 years ago and has absolutely nothing but a single watcher.
I did Ask Dragoneer over Twitter before he passed and said it was okay, but we didn't follow through. (RIP man...)
I will say that I am certainly peeved to have been declined. I don't have any beef with any of the staff over this silly policy change.
I finally settled on a name for myself but peeps will still refer to me as my username. Even if I made a banner with flashing bold letters.
Anyway. That username 'Flute' is out of my reach now on here.
I have had big plans to combine profiles and stick with one alias for good.
Do I move from my second main:
camble? Or do I settle with the 'FluteBird' account I just claimed?
I saw the 1TT response for the new year I was so excited. ;v;
Let me start mine off with a trouble ticket I recieved from the FA staff.
Clears throat
"For user privacy reasons we no longer transfer accounts or usernames. If the account owner deletes their account, however, you can make a new account with the same name once the deletion goes through.
Sorry for the inconvenience!"
So I wanted the FA account username
flute As you can see it was made now roughly 20 years ago and has absolutely nothing but a single watcher. I did Ask Dragoneer over Twitter before he passed and said it was okay, but we didn't follow through. (RIP man...)
I will say that I am certainly peeved to have been declined. I don't have any beef with any of the staff over this silly policy change.
I finally settled on a name for myself but peeps will still refer to me as my username. Even if I made a banner with flashing bold letters.
Anyway. That username 'Flute' is out of my reach now on here.
I have had big plans to combine profiles and stick with one alias for good.
Do I move from my second main:
camble? Or do I settle with the 'FluteBird' account I just claimed?I saw the 1TT response for the new year I was so excited. ;v;
FA+

Sorry to hear about the name situation, but honestly I wouldn't do any migration unless you *really* want to, cause it'll cause plenty of other issues. I think the majority of peeps understanding that FA is extremely archaic when it comes to usernames not being what they represent (there's a meme in there of a name like "FoxDude" with a user profile picture clearly being a dragon), so your not exactly alone in this. Could just put "Flute" as your user title so it's at least there.
It is frustrating. FA should at least offer a cover name instead of a limited account name. I guess for some it is all the same name for 20 years then there are peeps like me who couldn't decide on a damn name for 15... XD