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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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I think the lowerst you can get is one month. And yes, you would be able to change your name in that time
There was an event on which on could test core for a day tho.. not sure if changing the name works during testing. But that´s long ago anyway.
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I have heard that if you have a core membership for as little as a month you can change your username... the best time to do it is at Christmas when they ask DA members to send Christmas cards to people in the hospital (you mail a card to the address that they give you and after Christmas they give you a free core membership for a month, so you get to change your username for the cost of a stamp) So far I think Christmas is the only holiday that they do this...
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look at all the butthurt people
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I have been waiting for a username change for 2 fricken years, seriously DA I'm getting sick of this
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And you'll be even more sick when you realize you have to be a core member.
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Seriously? Why can't normal users change their user as well? It should be free for all people that have DeviantArt.
Not happy >:[
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This is not the reason. lol
The staff knows that changing a username is something many people want to do. And they abuse this to make money. (No offense staff, but this is really shitty)
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First: They ought to get some sort of gain from making this site.
Second: People abuse this system, so it's a good was to prevent then from exaggerating.
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Yes they need to earn money. People abuse the system? What system? To re-name their account? How can one abuse it?
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By changing the names too much.
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That is nonsense. The staff team doesn´t care about things like this. It is also not "abusing". It is using a feature. And you can only change the name every 6th month.
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It's not a surprise, honestly.
The staff has the right to do that, it's not cheap.
Think it's different with a real name? Nope. It's the same.
It's also to make sure you don't think lightly of your username before choosing it.
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They don´t care about our usernames. They have zero work with that. It´s all done automatically. The only true reason why this is a thing, is to make money. But it has nothing to do with any of the other reasons you claim to be right.
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This should be a basic feature without charging for it.
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woa the option to change your username is no longer free? what the heck this should be a basic function, jfc Deviantart..
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"You have recently changed your username. This feature will be available again on September 10th, 2018." Well, it's September 10th, and I still can't change it.
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Well, now that our usernames were moved to the front of the "deviantart" link we can only dream of the day one deviant can change their name for free or paying a small sum of points (IMO 100 would be good enough since it's just one perk of a many).
People usually complain how much points are "useless" but by doing so you can give'em at least one good reason for them to gather some for themselves.
Oh, you can even extend this to some other perks Core Members have.
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Hey!
Is it possible to request a change of username? Or should I deactivate my account since I wouldn't end up using it with this username and make a new one?
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That kinda sucks that I don't have core, but I'm happy that my friend MarioLightFire-Hero changed her username from "UranusGlaze2002" to "MarioLight-FireHero".
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okay i see this SO late but i fucking lost it at this comment lmao
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i think its stupid that you need core to change your username
how about this we can change our name without core
if that doesn't happen will that's dumb because i'm not gonna spent money on core to just change my username
or leave the account that i worked hard on as well...
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It confuses people. It's to help not cause a massive pile of users changing their names all at once, so you won't mess up who's who.
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But when you change it, there is a small box that says "Formerly (User's first username)" next to where their current username is on their profile. Last time that I checked.
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When you bother to check their profile, though.
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The best thing is I think you shouldn't have to pay, but you still have to wait the six months. So like say I changed my name to something angsty because thats just me
"TheInsaneScars" Formerly Http-WDGaster
They could still send out the notification but after that you couldn't change again for 6 or more months. That way there wont be everyone changing their name within like three seconds every second.
But thats just my solution for that.
Or they could raise the price of core and make it where you can change your name at least with a two month or one month delay no fee.
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Anyway, it's their legal choice. Plus, it's our job to think wisely before entering an username
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i am happy, dark hacker is my father josef nemec a dalsi nevim proc ale je to trapne od nich chcou me zabit psychycky
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id get core just for a username change but a gosh darn ancient unused account stole the username i want. its surprising though because the username i want is different and weird. i want 72027. i need to match all my other accounts, this is my old username i dont use anymore anywhere aaaa
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I know you commented this forever ago but you could do 72O27 the 0 was changed to a capital o and isn't taken as of this comment!
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when i get core some day lol. maybe 72027 will be available then
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any chance you guys are ever gonna make the wait to change them not half a year.
sometimes usernames can be connected to bad memories and start to trigger the person on that account, but they have to deal with it for half a year.
seriously, the only change i think i have ever wanted is the wait for the username changes.
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No se como cambiarlo sino tengo con que pagarlo
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...so you need to become a premium member to do it...
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I bought core and could not change username cause it belonged to deleted acc 900rub well spent
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it's easy to check if a username is taken or not by typing "deviantart.com/*insert username here*" into the url bar
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I knew that at the time. I checked it. It belonged to long gone deactivated account. I didn't know you can't claim username from that.
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ohh i am so sorry about that qwq
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If I change my username and then core membership ends does my username change back to the old name or no, please help me out, thanks
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