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Hey DP mod/admin,

Can I request to change my username? I'd be glad if I could change my username. Thanks in advance!

memasti, Aug 15, 2009 IP
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http://forums.digitalpoint.com/faq.php?faq=policies#faq_username_change

Username Change
Username changes are also not done (more for technical reasons than anything else)...

The Why
Changing a username more or less takes the site out of commission for 10-15 seconds as it has to go through tables where the username is stored and change it in many, many places (including very large [think multi-gigabyte] tables) where the username within it isn't indexed.

For example, the database that stores posts... the username is stored with each post you make. So one of the places it has to go through and do an unindexed find/replace is the post table (full table scan of every post ever made, and also locking the post table so no other SQL queries can be made to it).
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