All these bloody 'user443268643' names, I have a Cunning Plan.

Tell us that it wasn't Number 18 or some such on the consultants' list, Fliss?

Copy the list of top 500 girls names and top 500 boys names. Add top 1000 UK surnames. Combine at random.

This should keep you going for another 10 years. AmeliePatel, MillymaePearson, MohammedNewman and JakeSmith might not be fabulous, but more memorable than user23176543.

:(

I always use the desktop version on my phone, works perfectly and I don't lose any of the functionality I would with the app.

This username business needs addressing ASAP, it's ridiculous.

Judy the issue is they can't namechange on the app

So what?

I'm not even sure what the point of the app is. The mobile site has the full functionality of the desktop site and works beautifully on a phone.

I'd rather like to know as well.

I'm a little perplexed as to any possible rationale.

Why are they there. I have missed an important piece of the jigsaw as to why we suddenly have all these user names???
Please can someone enlighten me?

Could we have an update on this, please?

Great idea Stratters - they are irritating and anonymous - me not recognising by sight long streams of numbers - still can't remember my own mobile number.

YY to Clarks shoe names Ivywall - they are weird gobbledygook bearing no relation to the shoe - intensely but inexplicably irritating two word combos!

Easily irritated moi? I do admit the slight contradiction in these two irritants though

Even CuntWeasel is better than user440567899.

In fact, i'm pretty certain there is a CuntWeasel posting.

Ooh, we could all call them "anonymousnewbie" when replying/referring to them. Or "probabletroll". Or "toothicktoNC" (or the kinder "CBATNC").

It is certainly possible and easy to nc on the app, but I don't know whether it's more difficult for that first nc.

If they can't change on the app, use the website.

I never ever use the app anyway, I don't see the point.

Surely the simplest "solve" is to add add a forced change step like you get when a system resets your password. Or make them choose their own user name in the first place.

I love the Xbox ones! We've had in the past GrybbyDwarf, MustyBuffalo, ChineseFinger, HardenedGoat and my all time favourite WhiffyNecklace.

If they can do it I'm sure MN can, nothing can be that awful surely?!

I think if you called them newbie3726384767 instead of user3726384767 many would go to the trouble of changing much faster.

Judy the issue is they can't namechange on the app.

Just feed in colours and a handful of names. Thousands of innocent NN on tap. BlueJim, GreenJim, YellowJim, RedSarah, PurpleYusuf, GreenRuth.

Can we please sort this out, all these user14543422666544 stuff is ridiculous, how on earth are we supposed to build up relationships with them if they're an amorphous blob of usernumbers

People have been complaining about the User8577392394584727267465 thing for months now and they still seem to be coming thick and strong. Surely it wouldn't need anything massively techie to tell them that if they haven't got a real name within a day or two they'll be banned?

They did say that. It baffles me that every time there's a tech question like this someone from HQ answers and says "Ooh good idea, we will pass it on".

Surely you should know/have a list of "issues site users complain about/query" and from that list be able to access "existing answers given" and/or any other relevant information? It doesn't seem very joined up!

Ah sorry TheSpook , I didn't realise that you existed

Does that mean I am inadvertently one of those posters? The ones who pinch a username and add their own slant on it!

In my defence, I really wanted to be TheWitchAssassin at the very beginning. They are all references to a series of books.

TheChippendenSpook I was reading this thread and it rang a bell. See here

Microsoft do this on their xbox login. I am LogicalSolid25. I like it.

I have to say, I'm struggling to think of appalling combinations that don't include obscenities which are surely easy to exclude.

Unless they were things like CuntWeasel