Something stange happening to my profile page.

[HelloNewman]

A strange link has appeared in my profile page: www.mumsnet.com/Profile?nick=HelloNewman

How do I get rid of it, and how did it get there?

Same problem happening here. Can mods confirm if it's site wide or just happening to us?

I wonder if it's anything to do with the 'Site Outage'/hacking scenario which happened a few days ago?

Oh my goodness, the first reddaisy post on this thread is absolutely not from me - how has that happened? It just flashed up on my 'watched list'.

Huh? Do we both have the same username or something? I've been using this account for months.

How weird

I've had this username for years . I did spot a reddaisyred recently, is that anything to do with you or do we have another one?

It's not possible to have the same username as someone else

The verification for usernames has broken - you can put in the names of well-known MNers and it isn't coming up with the usual "username taken" message - I haven't tried actually namechanging but I presume it would work.

I expect that whichever of you had the name first will keep it, and the other will be asked to namechange as soon as the system is functioning again.

You both have the same profile page too.

We could have some fun with this

I did think that, usual suspect. Because even now you won't be sure which RedDaisy is posting!

Takes Socky Possibilities to whole new realms.

Gremlins again. I know someone who lost their account due to Jeffrey.

I'm having the exact same problem as OP! When is tech going to fix this?

If the issues is months old then it's clearly nothing to do with the site outage the other day.

And there aren't any 'mods' btw.

ohhh well this is interesting

Hello- tech is looking into this for you at the moment.

it doesnt let you change I just tried to see what happened.

I can't use a couple of names I've recently used - I write them in the box and it goes red and won't allow them.

Thanks, YABeckyMN!

I'd be interested in an update about the username situation when tech has a moment. Thanks!

Bumping for you red

Thanks!