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Originally Posted by fowlplay4
Community names will never be as seamless as normal account names, for as long as they can be changed, and that's the whole point of the system.
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I thought the point of system, on the user-side at least, was to play the game then pick out an 'account name'. Not to have some kind of flavor-of-the-week nickname service. Through all of these threads, I'm 85% sure that I've seen admins say that changing your community name isn't a common service.
Account name have
always been able to be changed. It's only a matter of frequency and ease. If it happens often, then either scripters are screwed or users are screwed. But, as far as I know, it doesn't happen often and it could be fairly easy to seamlessly integrate community names. For instance, there are plenty of online utilities that assign
user IDs for use with maintenance tools or background tools, but display
usernames for all human-powered functions. The same principal can easily apply here. To see an example, just open up the source code of any popular web application, e.g. phpBB.