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

[Stratter5]

They're SO annoying. And it's difficult to differentiate between them. Could we possibly make some sort of auto random word generating thing instead? Like the bot Captcha thingy that generates two random words to confirm you're not a bot. NerveLeaf or CatMacaron would be so much easier than all the user names.

Is there a bug making them all start 147 at the moment?

I assume numbers are allocated in order. Since it's such a long number, potentially there could be around a million 147s before it clicks up to 148.

But there weren't lots of user100, user 101, and there can't have been 47m signups!

As something of an afficionada of fanfiction, Lass, I am now imagining mumsnet filled with some of the truly awful elf-names that teenage girls in love with Orlando Bloom Legolas give themselves their characters in bad fanfiction. I think this could really be a runner

WouldHave i saw that thread. I got a bit confused and decided not to read it anymore.

Could be appending the user id but just a guess. Problem with the names probably down to the database used as others have pointed out. Anyone else curious what a mumsnet themed database of words would spit out?

Hi Everyone, sorry this is still so irritating for everyone we'll make sure this gets bumped to tech

Pleeeeease do!

Oh, I am the only person who now wants to see some of the 'appalling' combinations?
'BananaGonorrhoea'? 'PaedophileBonanza'? 'TrumpsMistress'?

I mean, how bad can it have been??
It must have been pretty bad to be better than user263850405784025 or whatever

Stratters, you are indeed a genius

off to name change!!

Done! No prizes for guessing what I'm watching!!

I don't get why it so irritating. I name change every day so surely I'm just as anonymous as any User234576543234 🤔

ZbZb you are anonymous in that I have no idea who you are in real life but ZbZb is recognisable as a name on here.

User 147123456789 and User147123456798 are not.

Mostlyhet and here I am in my Elvin robes.

Oh I love the new name. I feel you need to have your own story - who floats your boat? Legolas? Or are you an Aidan Turner enthusiast? Or shall I bump off Arwen so you can have Aragorn? Or un-bump-off Boromir? Or do you fancy yourself as more of the action heroine rather than the love interest, taking over from Frodo in order to drop the ring into Mt Doom yourself? In fanfic, any ending you want can be produced (grammar, spelling, plausibility and literary merit on the other hand are optional extras).

So awful. Hate them.

I see myself as a Galadriel type Het

Is there any danger of this getting sorted this year?

Bump.

But please sort out the sloooooow first, Tech

It's irritating for existing users but also, it gives new users a bad experience as everyone is suspicious of them and can't be arsed to interact with them as individuals.

Surely not how mumsnet want to treat their new users?

I think a good interim idea would be to change user1258689753 to newbie167646984.

And I know that's technically possible, as opposed to the usual excuses of oooh IT is so complicated it will take us soooo long typeof excuses not to do anything!

Hi Everyone, sorry this is still so irritating for everyone. We'll make sure this gets bumped to tech

That went well then, didn't it? We're coming up to 6 months since this thread started. Any chance of an update at the very least?

Hello!

Tech are currently working on a project to improve the registration process (the new registration process will eliminate this username problem).

Sorry for the delay, please do hang in there!

Thanks. Any idea when it will be resolved?

Hi Megatherium

We don't have a time-frame at the moment we're afraid, but the wheels are in motion!