Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20200723182124/@comment-24006128-20200724161310

Andrewds1021 wrote: What happens when someone with an account that lost the username tries to login? Is there some way they can be notified about the name change? For instance, lets such there are two people with the name "UserA" The Fandom user hasn't been on for a few years and looses the name so they get resolved to "UserA-fduser" and "UserA". Then the Fandom user tries to login with "UserA". What happens? As far as I can tell, they would get a "wrong password" message since the login system doesn't know it is actually "UserA-fduser" and not "UserA". But if the Fandom user doesn't know about the name change, they are going to think they just forgot their password and request a password reset for someone else's account. I don't see how the login system would be able to tell them "Hey! Your name has been changed. Use this one instead."

If they login with OAuth or email, it will login just fine.

If they login with username, the helper text will prompt them to add -fduser upon login failure.