+anarcha77 Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 Greetings all; Apologies if this has been asked before -- I did a few searches through the forums and didn't find an answer. I am considering changing my geocaching username (specifically, so that it'll roughly match my username on other sites like instagram etc). My question is -- if I change my name, what happens to all my logs on the website? Will they keep showing my current username, or will they all switch to the new one? My concern is that I don't want cache owners to think that all of my 'finds' from the past 5 years or so are fake because my new username obviously won't be on the physical logbooks, my old (current) name will. thanks. Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 If you change your username, then all your old logs will show your new username. If you're concerned about cache owners not realizing that it's still you, then you could include a note on your profile stating that you used to use the name anarcha77 before you changed your geocaching name to [whatever]. 1 Quote Link to comment
+RufusClupea Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 niraD is correct. Having just gone through this a coupla times in my brief tenure here (Due to online translator inconsistencies, I briefly changed my username to RufusAllec, then changed it back.), it was a simple matter to check all my logs thus far. What didn't change were posts in which I was quoted (e.g. this post ). So far, that's all I've seen, but I may not have seen/noticed everything. 1 Quote Link to comment
+anarcha77 Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 Thanks for your replies -- helpful & much appreciated. Quote Link to comment
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