Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-9605025-20180624075601

So it took me a while to realize it but I just noticed that Wikia switched the name format for the pages that store Forum posts/message wall posts/article comments; using user ids instead of usernames. I am guessing it is the cause of the broken redirect issue (which still isn't fixed; by the way) and, intentional or not, makes it easier to implement the user rename tool (since user id doesn't change; I assume).

Anyways, it got me wondering if there is a way to get a username given a userid. Now, I know you are supposed to be able to do this using the API but when I tried, I got an error.

get my ID from my username

get my username from my ID 