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The Magic of Name Changes!

Journal Entry: Thu May 17, 2012, 5:30 PM




Well, DeviantArt has finally done it.  Finally you can change your user name without loosing all your page stats or reuploading everything to a new gallery!  

I've been wanting to change my account name to Eskiworks for a long time now.  The only thing getting in my way is that I already created an account under that name to reserve it.  Under their current rules (and I imagine this is more a technical issue rather than an artificial rule) I can't use that name.  Not even if I deactivate the account, and not even if I change it to something else before using the name.  I even sent a trouble ticket to be absolutely sure, because the FAQ on name changes didn't specifically mention some of the things I wanted to try.  The response was pretty conclusive: once an account name exists in the database, it can not EVER be used by anyone else, under any circumstances.

So, in the knowledge that "Eskiworks" is still off limits to me, I've gone ahead and simply changed the capitalization of my current account name.  While it would be nice to unify my online presence under a single alias, I still like my DA account name and can wait patiently until they figure out a solution for people like me.

In the mean time I'll try to keep up with who is who, and hope everyone who can change their name is happy with the change!

[edit] - Several folks have suggested I simply alter Eskiworks in some manner to be able to use it, however I'm not content doing so.  I prefer to use the name as I intended it to look, and not mangle it for technicality's sake.

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:icondittin03:
=dittin03 May 21, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
I'm having the same issue. I already reserved the name I want with another account. Ugh :(
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:iconliquidfaestudios:
*LiquidFaeStudios May 19, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
I'm having the same problem, and sent the same ticket lol.

I wanted to change my name to LiquidFae, but that name had previously been used and although the account had been deleted a long time ago, it is still permanently unavailable. sucks.

I also dont want to alter it, and Liquid-Fae is ALSO taken by a deviant inactive since 2006. very irritating. I dont want to add any numbers so... Irrania I stay. lol
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:iconvanillast:
~vanillast May 19, 2012  Student Digital Artist
I wish they did this earlier... like on jan when I had to create a new account to get a new name D':
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~Acrid-Blood May 19, 2012  Student Digital Artist
It's rather silly to not be able to alter your old name and change the one here... Sometimes websites just make it so complicated D:

As well, if you don't mind me asking.. How /do/ you change your name? Or is it only available to Premium memberships?
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:iconzyden:
*Zyden May 18, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
Hmmm, sort of funny I suppose. But it looks like you might just end up having to migrate over gradually. Are page stats that important? It took me about a month to slowly move all my art over to the new account before I advertised it.
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*Shadow-Wolf May 18, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
This account has been active for 9 years, have six DD's and a metric fuck-ton of watchers I don't want to loose while migrating. I LIKE my account name, so I'm not exactly weeping over being unable to change it right now. If I'm never able to change it, then so be it! I'd really rather maintain a single account with all that history and all these watchers than migrate and loose most of that for the same of a name. I'm happy with my choice, thanks! =)
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~DoomScarf May 23, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
and a metric fuck-ton of watchers

:lol:
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:iconzyden:
*Zyden May 18, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
I hope DA let you merge the name into this account then. It would be interesting to see if they could do it.
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:iconjakthedrox:
Eski works techincally should be two words so puting a space between it would be logical wouldn' t it?

and thats silly.


sadly i just mad this account a couple months ago.... and now.... they do this. so my old account that was way more active than this one could have been named this one T_T
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:iconshadow-wolf:
*Shadow-Wolf May 18, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
Nope, I like it as one word, and I want it to stay that way. ^^ As I've said to others, I'd prefer to wait for the day I can use the name as I intend it, rather than alter it for technicality's sake.
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