Quote from: Lucius on Today at 12:53:47 PM

but he can change the user's name only in a certain topic - as is the case here / How username turned into "Anonymous" in 2022?

He can change the display name, username of a user or he can change more to "Anonymous" which I believe only a display name. Ratimov, remmeber him?

Many deleted threads were restored by admins and I remember that author of those restored threads is not Ratimov but something like Rxxxxxx.

Quote from: theymos on January 10, 2020, 02:10:26 PM

Each user has a display name, which is the only name ordinary users see, and a username, which is what you use to log-in with. Almost always, they are the same.

If I change a name for reasons of appearance, then I only change the display name. The username remains reserved, the user can still login using the username, PMs can still be sent to that username, "search member" allows searching for the old username, etc.

If I change a name for reasons of privacy, then I change both the username and the display name. In this case, it is possibly hazardous to reserve the old username, since it allows someone to test for the existence of that username, possibly defeating the privacy benefit. If you're worried about being impersonated, then simply don't seek to have your username changed.