<or display name changes are moderated, in which case it doesn't provide any real advantage compared to the current system.> I completely disagree, the purpose of this thread was to take measures against people being confused about who a person formally was after he changes his name, not about reducing the work load of the moderators. of course the workload of moderators should be considered, but that is outside the scope of this topic. also how about limiting display name changes to once in 30 days, or the system regarding an extra string showing in friends list such as formally known as X is a good solution. adding bio is a good thing, but it doesn't really solve the problem at hand as they can choose to change their bio and their name both. talking about people not being technically aware, I am sure people will be confused for a while and after using the new system for few days, everyone will get used to it. we can't stay back from adopting new things just because some people are not aware, making them aware by educating them is a better solution in my view.

pretty much every social sight assigns you a unique identity through usernames, the concept has been there for years, it not only solves the issue of identity spoofing, it also assigns you a unique identity in the Quentin C's Game Room database, so you could hopefully recover your old account if you lost your email access along with the password.

Well you can change usernames and bio at the same time yes, but being on one’s friend list, you must somewhat know ones online personality and writing style. This is one thing that doesn’t really disappear. The bios give a sense of control on what people want to show and what they want to hold back. It’s important to know that there will always be an issue regarding identity online. People can always delete their accounts and create new ones if the whole changing usernames diddn’t exist. In this case, not writing a bio by which one revealed their previous username, is really up to them and the least of the issues that presents here. However, I do believe people would write bios mainly because it’s quick, easy and it can at one point look bad on their part if they did not provide one, depending if you are a person that gives into conforming to blend in or not. And if you don’t care about bios, you just don’t have to read or write any of them

Your "friends list" is really your "people who you play against list" in the true sense of the phrase. You have people on your list who you have known for a long time and some you have only just met. Remember that if some players choose the setting that only "friends" can only join their table then that player may have only added a player to their friends list to enable them to play the game. I am not against people being able to share a brief synopsis about themselves but I do think there will need to be a setting such as "personal friends list" where more private details would be given. If you do not wish to include any info then you would just leave your friends list as it is.

Yeah put the setting who can see my bio and then be able to put friends only or favourites only etc. just a thought

I am not against people being able to share a brief synopsis about themselves but I do think there will need to be a setting such as "personal friends list" where more private details would be given. If you do not wish to include any info then you would just leave your friends list as it is.

That's exactly how I see your list of favorites. As a reminder, favorites is a new feature recently introduced where you can add friends to this list, and configure your privacy options as you like. The way I see it, favorites are the people you talk to most often and share personal details with, but the way I see it doesn't matter because in my view, this should be a personal preference.

In my opinion, It's not up to me or anyone else to decide what should be shared on a profile and what should not, simply give privacy options just like all the other features and let the individual decide, as some are comfortable to share more, and some not as much, furthermore all other networks allow you to choose who should see your profile and who should not.

Username should be unique,
and display name should be changeable anytime, and as per wish of the user.
This is what most of social platform follows.
This will directly remove the workload of modrators, and for those who keep changing names time to time,
can get identify by there usernames?
or even if usernames also flexible, i don't think that can create any problem?
for those who want to change there user name / name, they should have full rights to do that.
if one have problem with that, they can simply stop talking?
A bio also can introduce, with privacy settings, like who can see my bio etc.

interesting sutff here

I'm not sure why some users constantly changing their usernames, it's getting very annoying in my opinion, I think the username change should be less often like 90 days or 120 days instead of 30 days.
I'm not a username Changer personally, i'm fine with me just using my first and last name.

I have always had the same nickname, I don't like to change it. And right now, I have 120 users on my friends list and most of the time I only recognize less than 25 percent. Because most change it every 30 days. On top of that, it is then difficult for me to relate each nickname and event that I remember with the same person who had those nicknames and with whom I lived those moments. Since it gets very confusing to me and I tend to make mistakes about what happened to who or who that person was, and thus a lot of confusion. Personally, I would not allow the nickname to be changed, although the option of having a name that is not changed and a nickname that is, seems to me to be an excellent solution. I would know who is who by seeing their name and that person can give themselves whatever nickname they want, whenever they want and without affecting me or others.

Hence why the username and display name solution. It would be a unique identifier to the person and then they could go by whatever name they so choose it doesn't matter. because you'd see it next to the display name. In that case they should even be able to change that within the client and I think it would be ok even if it happens frequently or the display name setting is left leniant. Username is what one would use to add them to friends list, send them pms, etc. Helps too because you don't have eto constantly remember when atting someone for pm, and trying to spell out their new nickname, etc. This is kind of how things work on platforms like discord too. People change nicknames and then you don't know who's this random person in your dm's list but it's as simple as going to the dm in question and looking in the profile preview underneath the chat field and you know. On playroom it would be even simpler I'd imagine.

wouldn't be easier if we could laible a friend so even if they change their names it won't matter? Say for example Naday I can labile her as Nad. And it reads in my friends list as Nad Naday. Now whenever she changes her name it won't matter, it will read Nad Diana assuming she changed to it
Edited: Never mind, I wrote it quickly. While it can be helpful, yet we would have to add laibles to a lot of friends. Time consuming

Hello,
it's not that labeling takes time. I was personally thinking of some similar idea, but it is that as Aminiel rightly pointed out, if we just label everybody, what's even the point of changing a nickname if it isn't even going to be displayed? In my post I called it renaming rather than labeling, but the concept is basically the same.

The more I think about this topic, I realize that we basically turned away from its original purpose.
The purpose of the topic was finding out who somebody is after they changed their nickname, so that in your friends list you no longer have misterious people you no longer know.
Then, we've discussed the display names, and a decision was made that they won't be implemented because they don't bring the benefit of being able to change your display name as many times as you want in a short period, because abuse still has to be prevented.
However, this shouldn't have been the point of the topic.
Personally I still think we keep the monthly nickname change limit (or whatever extended limit is decided), but we still implement display names.

The main point should have remained, with a display name, you have the opportunity to choose how your nickname will be displayed to other users, but there is always the original nickname to refer back for your friends, and you can always find out who the person is. Changing your nickname more often is a completely separate concern, and basically here I really think nothing should change (or at least the limit should definitely not be decreased).

Well, it's a complicated redesign that no doubt takes time and needs a lot of thought, so for everybody else, I suggest just being patient. Let's see what happens.

Idk if this was mentioned before but we could have a separate category in the stats of a player saying nickname history or something like this and it shows you all of them in a list.
Perhaps it would be left up to the user whether to enable that or not, or whether it should be done by default without a choice given because you chose to set that nickname and remain on the internet, this is e privacy debate that I personally don't have an opinion on at the moment but I can see why that would make the feature hard to implement. Either way can't make everybody happy no matter what you do.
Additionally perhaps after the nickname changed, in the players list on the client side it could say person A(formally bla bla) up to 7 days of the nickname change.

Hello,
I want to emphasize that I am not really an active person in this forum, but I couldn't avoid commenting on this topic. Lol.
First of all, I have no problems with people changing their nicknames, usernames, etc.
If people want to hide their identity, let them do it.
If they want to change their usernames or nicknames ten times in a month, let them do it.
(It is a good idea to limit how often we can change our nicknames, of course.)
What I believe is that We cannot change people's personalities.
Whatever we do or say, we won't be able to change them.
However, there is a crucial problem here that must be solved.
Whenever I log in, I often find one or two usernames in my friends list that have changed, which always confuses me.
I don't want to delete them because they could be someone I know. Lol.
My solution is that whenever people change their usernames, at least give us a notification, an email, or something.
This would also help prevent people who want to mess around with other players because we would know who they are.
If someone wants to hide themselves, they have another option: deleting their account and creating a new one with a different email.
Note: I have been using Playroom since 2014, and I have only changed my username once.
Thanks!

Hello,
just to be clear, I also think the solution proposed by Ilhan is ideal without any changes, just give us some kind of notice about nickname changes.
Honestly for my part I don't care that much about automatic notifications, it is fine if it is just listed in statistics as said by SharmaJi, then I can check if I am interested, however, the reason I even stopped mentioning or discussing this solution is because of the previous posts in this topic, in particular:
Post 22, Aminiel said:

Many people change their nickname because they want to start everything again from scratch, sort of. For those people, showing their previous name is exactly what they don't want, obviously.
And there is also the question of not only showing the previous name, but the last X, or the whole history. This isn't so easy to decide where to stop.
To keep things simple, no history at all will ever be shown, and I probably won't ever change this, because it isn't so simple technically, and the information is currently not recorded basically.

So, it seems this currently isn't easily doable. That's a shame, because otherwise it would be practical.

On the topic of privacy, probably the best choice is that only your friends would be able to see that history of nickname changes.
If you added somebody as a friend, it means you more or less trust them, at least to a minimum degree. If you no longer trust them, it's your obligation to remove them from the list, and now that the friends list was redesigned several years ago and that the friends you remove no longer keep you in their list, this actually solves that issue.
And besides, the main issue seems to be exactly as pointed out, in my friends suddenly strange nicknames appear that I don't recognize, so it seems to me like your friends should always have the right to know what was the nickname they added to the list.

there is something I don't understand here: why would you want to have the need to change your username if you can change a nickname instead and keep both? I mean, I get that you'd want to start over but then you could delete your account and create a new one, as pointed out earlier. It should be the best solution to have a display name and then a username that you cannot change.