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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 changed my name but I had to remake my password, when I did it kept my name as my Nymphialuvssugar. I can't tell if its SweeteaDoe or not...It's supposed to be SweeteaDoe
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you total one fix robot in cclean enter Usernames !!
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my deviant membership ran out and i cant afford the new core prices
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When you know that you need membership to change name.....
*Flip a table*AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!>
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I understand your suffering :/
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PLZZZZZ...Someone save from this purgatory (AKA...Donald Trump's wall), so I can just, this ONE & only time, simply change my dang username. I promise I will good, hell, I'll even stop watching porn. All I ask, is for this one name change, and I won't ever pull this stunt again!! Plz..I am literally drowning here!!!
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I'm able to change my Username today since I waited Six months again but why isn't it working!?
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No es justo yo quiero cambiar mi nombre de usuario pero no soy premium T__T
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Entiendo tu sufrimiento :/
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Too bad I cant change my username :')
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When the Heck are you gonna remove this "feature"?
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why do you think they should remove it?
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I know some people who use it too often. Arkham-Kitten used it TWICE in 2 months
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users can only change their username once every 6 months, so arkham-kitten probably did not change their username twice in 2 months. are you sure you didn't just confuse them with another user?
even if someone DOES change their name often, where's the harm in it? some people are indecisive, it's not that big a deal lol
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Nah, it was same user.
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FAQ #112: How do I change my DeviantArt username?
- "You may only change your username once every six months."
again, it's not possible for someone to change their username twice in two months, but ok
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Maybe someone did that on TWO of their accounts.
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then he could have specified that the username changes were on two different accounts
who actually cares tho
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It's the only possible way to change a username twice within 6 months.
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I just want to fix one little letter in my username, I'm not paying 15 bucks for one simple fix!!
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/that feel when no money to buy a premium account, but I would like to change the name 
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Can you guys please make it so that I don't have to pay to change my username, it's really dumb and I want be able to change my username (since it sounds gay, read user description to see explanation). Seriously, how complicated could it be? I ask you guys to please make changing usernames free for the sake of every cheapskate here on DeviantArt. Thank you very much, and have a nice day.
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In fact, changing the name in the program isn't all that complicated.
It wouldn't take a lot for DA to make the change and with the money they make through ads and the premium membership, you'd think they'd make the change for free, especially since one can only change it every 6 months.
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I agree with you. We shouldn't have to pay to change our usernames.
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a while back I made a new account to change my username.
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I´m confused.. it say I´m able to change my dA name today but it say I have to wait till the 20 may ´17..
Do I need to wait after the day ?
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I've never tried but I heard people say there's a cool down time of like 6 months?
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Even though I have a core membership when I try to change my username it doesn't do squat and tells me I don't have a core when my friends who also have one month core's can. Kinda wish it would work.
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Crap, I should have put more thought into when I got my username
welp, guess I need to save up for a Premium membership
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Is there a free da one, I don't want a membership
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:0 I am so confused. I should be able to change my username today but it's saying I cant?
It says I can't change it until 4/23/2017 but it already is 4/23/2017 and well.... its 7:13 PM now so uh- Is this a glitch? :V I should be able to change it.
Also my core is gonna run out soon so uuuuuhhhhh--;;;
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One thing I'd love to have as a name change thing for CORE user is that you would be able to choose to change back on username, as long as you had it on the same account your currently used.
Like a button right under the "change username" setting that appears 6 months after you change, stating:
"Old usernames"
- name
- name
And then you could choose that. Since you had it first. And it's only been on your account. As long as it is the same.
If you would add that feature it would be great.
And as a message to the watchers it could say:
"[username] have changed back their username to [old username]"
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This is something I'd really love as well, because I changed my username some years ago, but I would really like the old one back (maybbe altering the capitalization and removing a hyphen, but that's not a necessity), and unfortunately that's not an option. Would love to see that changed!
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Awesome idea! I suggest writing up a suggestion to the DA staff asking to implement this feature. You can find out how to write a suggestion here: [LINK]
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