Notification when creating new account

theonlygusti

While yeah, this idea does make sense, one has to remember that having such a message could discourage account creation in the first place, creating a “I'm signing up permanently” feeling rather than a “let's just check this out” feeling.

However, I do support, but I'd prefer a different wording: “the username cannot be changed” is very negative and subliminally connotes permanency, which scares many people off, perhaps:

Choose a username:
Make sure it's one you like, it's yours for as long as you're on Scratch!

Would be better?

awesome-llama

Prinseskat wrote:
Support, though I think the note should use “create” instead of “confirm” as it could be mistaken for email confirmation, suggesting that you can change your username after you create the account but before you confirm the email address. (unless that's an actual feature I didn't know of)

I reworded it.

pvz_pro

support so that people can stop suggesting to change their username

bigpuppy

Techno-CAT wrote:
_Comicfan_ wrote:
Support, if it looks like this.

__init__

Support. This is a great idea.

ProjectMaker59

Support. Good Idea

awesome-llama

bump

jokebookservice1

Support. Maybe the message could appear after the first time you focus on the input box, just to make it look nicer (i.e. when you click on the box to type your username, the message shows up). It might help people make the decision of signing up before they find out that they cannot change their username, since they already clicked it.thought that though. I also agree that

pvz_pro wrote:
support so that people can stop suggesting to change their username

So support

Scratcher1002

bigpuppy wrote:
Techno-CAT wrote:
_Comicfan_ wrote:
Support, if it looks like this. Quote train, all aboard. CHOO CHOO! -Scratcher1002

alexphan

Scratcher1002 wrote:
bigpuppy wrote:
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You already supported…?

Support because of the post above.

Last edited by alexphan (May 28, 2016 00:20:46)

ChumleyChumpster

Support, it will stop these questions. They should add a changeable username feature, but then the @username thing would have to change. So, I dunno really?

ChumleyChumpster

theonlygusti wrote:
While yeah, this idea does make sense, one has to remember that having such a message could discourage account creation in the first place, creating a “I'm signing up permanently” feeling rather than a “let's just check this out” feeling.

However, I do support, but I'd prefer a different wording: “the username cannot be changed” is very negative and subliminally connotes permanency, which scares many people off, perhaps:

Choose a username:
Make sure it's one you like, it's yours for as long as you're on Scratch!

Would be better?

“Your username cannot be changed after registration” That's how I would reword it.

VideoGamerCanInvent

ChumleyChumpster wrote:
Support, it will stop these questions. They should add a changeable username feature, but then the @username thing would have to change. So, I dunno really?

First off, I believe that changing your username is rejected. Also, it would confuse people if you just changed your username.

Austinato

I support, but I think “remember” should be substituted with “Please note”, as many new users likely haven't gone to the forums or acknowledged it previously.

pinkieofthepies

support, it would (hopefully) decrease the amount of “how do i change my username” questions

LionHeart70

Support. I'm sick of seeing;

how i change my username??

all over the forums.
Especially because 99.9% of the time the user just made their account. How do you already get bored of your username?

doqq

Yes! I love this idea! I've moved accounts (No joke) 12 times because I didn't like my username.

-Vuton-

Support, Idek why this isn't already a feature!

-raspberry_

Support. I cannot see any reason why not to support.

LionHeart70

VideoGamerCanInvent wrote:
ChumleyChumpster wrote:
Support, it will stop these questions. They should add a changeable username feature, but then the @username thing would have to change. So, I dunno really?
First off, I believe that changing your username is rejected. Also, it would confuse people if you just changed your username.

It's rejected because of how confusing it would get and because the servers weren't built to handle it.

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