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DeviantART has been around for almost twelve years, and in that time, we've seen artists grow from hobbyists to students to professionals. As a member of any community, your identity can change and grow over time.
For years, we've been getting requests from the community asking for the ability to change usernames. We realize that as an artist, it's important to give you the ability to change your personal brand, just as you change your interests, skills, and art types.
How It Works
Deviants can now change their username in their Settings . To change your username, you must have an active Premium Membership . (The reason there is a "fee" associated with the change is because switching usernames is a complex technical process that can create confusions for fellow deviants.) Once changed, your previous username will redirect to your new profile. You can only change your username once per six months and you are not able to change back to the original username.
What Happens When You Change Usernames
Once you change your username, you will be logged out and asked to login again using your new username and existing password.
Everything will be transferred
Your deviations (artwork), favourites, watchers, messages, stats, settings, etc., will all be transferred to the new username. The only thing that doesn’t transfer are the places where people mentioned your old username in comments, journals, artwork descriptions, etc. However, those links will redirect to your new username.
Your watchers will be notified
Your watchers will get a notification in their Message Center informing them that you have changed your username. Also, "(formerly [username])" will display on your new username’s Profile Page and next to your username for one month. This notice will always display (even after the one month) if someone visits your old profile and is redirected to the new one.
Further Details
- Username changes are available to anyone with an active Premium Membership -- whether you bought it yourself or it was gifted to you.
- You cannot change your username to one that is taken even if you are the owner of both. You cannot claim a deactivated account.
- You can simply change the capitalization of your username.
- No one will be able to claim your old username.
- Group username changes are not supported at this time.
Username changes have been one of our most requested features, and we're excited to offer this option. We understand the desire to adapt as you progress as an artist and it is our hope that username changes will facilitate this growth. As always, we're eager to hear your feedback!
Want to change your username? Upgrade to a Premium Membership .
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im ready to pay fee directly to change name but i don't need core membership
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Hopefully with all the changes given with Eclipse, they make it so you DON'T need a premium membership.
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Those are the most stupidest reasons ever, I don't blame you but deviant art
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Same. There is no justification for this.
If they are using the username as the primary key for the user's record, then I can see why it would be a problem.. however that should never be done because it is very very VERY bad programming. They should slap themselves because that is bottom-of-the-barrel terrible programming and they should feel very very ashamed.
Any data that has the potential to be changed should NEVER be used as a primary key! They should use a unique randomly generated string. A username should be nothing more than an attribute in the user records.
Sorry for the techno-babble dump there but I just have to get this off my chest. I've had this same issue with other websites and products and it is a major pet peeve of mine.
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I really want to change my username but I'm not getting core just to do that.
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"changing usernames is a complicated technical process"
no it isn't.
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when you consider that it relies upon them transferring all of your data to what is effectively a new account (because from the journal that is what they make it sound like) then it is a pretty complicated process...
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They shouldn't have to do that. All they should have to do is change the string value. If they really did make things that complicated, then they are pop-rocks n' soda in the brain bad programmers, plain and simple.
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well it shouldn't be that overly complicated. Usually something like that is just a text edit. I'm sure they pass it off like 'oh this is your special unique snowflake domain' or something. I've never had a service that considers something small like a username change to be a complete data transferral.
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I have. Clash of Clans. *shudders*
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"this video is sponsored by Vikings: Clash of Clans"
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It shouldn't cost anything. I dont have the money to change my name from the childish one I made at age 13..
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Weren't people able to remove the 'formerly xyz' through settings when the username change was first introduced?
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I here for 6 months so I maybe able to change my username. But how do I do it??
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I saw that one user has changed back to their old username, is that a new feature?
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I was wondering that too. Who was it?
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neither of those link to the person's profile so i can ask them ^^' also when i search the account i cant find it
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I know it doesn't link and I dont have evidence it was previously @/cvte then @foxkisse then @/cvte, but it was. Deviantart staff might have an explanation so i came here. I put @/ becuase I dont want to disturb them by tagging. Their page does show people asking how they got their old username back though just search @cvte in devianart search bar
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Oh wow, that's really interesting ...
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I know, I'm so curious as t how they did it.
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i have question, how put wachters (My Friends) to Friends?
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Spend money to change my username I prefer to create a new account before spending money
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So I can’t change my user name without forking out cash. I am not a professional artist. I have an account to comment and to post silly drawings. I am tired of having a username from when I was going through my gothic teen phase. If I was a professional artist sure I would be happy (maybe) to pay to use your sight but as you can see I’m not.
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it should be a free service. I haven't used a site or service ever that makes you effectively pay for an account change. Not even banks here do that.
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DA is only interested in digging its own grave these days
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Why do you need to change your username? It's just a bunch of trollbait.
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Ah, this is bullshit, so many page don't need that you pay to change your username, what is wrong with you guys?
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this may sound stupid but I need to know: if I get a 1 week core membership and change my name, then run out of core, does my name stay changed?? (It had better or that's just ridiculous) Please forgive me if it sounds like a dumb question, but I really need to know.
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