Determine if account has upgraded before?

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Originally Posted by Stephen

This might help.

The community name method did occur to me already, but I do not believe it is 100% reliable. If a non lifetime Classic account created prior to Graal###### accounts were to upgrade, and then eventually run out of gold, their community name would be equal to their account name, and so they would not be distinguishable as having upgraded. Allowing trial accounts prior to Graal###### usage would be something of a risk.

Sometimes you also have a Graal###### account which upgrades but the user has not created a community name, so if they were to let their gold expire without creating one it would also not be distinguishable.