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guest poster

I have a question.

If I close my LeFora account, will I be able to sign up again with a new username?

I know this link says I can't change my username unless I sign up with a NEW email address, but I thought I might have found a loophole through closing my account, then re-signing up under the same email address.

I know it's silly, but I'd love to change my username!

Thanks!

Regular - member
122 posts

Couldn't you just set up a new email addy and re-apply from there? Surely that'd be easier, no..?

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guest poster

No, I'll be depending heavily on email notifications from lefora so I need my main email account connected. Naturally that's what I used to sign up, so you can see how I'm stuck.

Ugh. I just noticed I posted this question in the CSS forum by mistake! Sorry! surprise

Regular - member
122 posts

OK, fair enough... ;-D

I just set up an extra email address so that all my forum stuff goes there, and private mail goes to my other one. I know it's a pain, but is there no way you could manage one personal and one forum-related...?

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Regular - member
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Tbh, I find it quite handy keeping the two separate since I started doing it that way...

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guest poster

lol. I have too many email addresses already, it's hard to keep track!

But no, I selected the email address I wanted affiliated with lefora for a reason. Unfortunately I didn't realize that usernames would appear only in lowercase, or I would have been just as careful when selecting my username.

I'm hoping this "loophole" will be the answer I'm looking for: closing my account, then signing up again using the same email address, different username.

Fanatic - moderator
1396 posts

If it doesn't work, then I use a gmail address that is set to forward all lefora emails to my main address.

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Oh, Der.. lol. Thanks Jack, I should've thoughta that!

:)

Fanatic - founder
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if you close your account, you cannot signup under the same email address.

If you're using gmail, you can sign up with multiple accounts on the same email address using a special + operator.

For example, if your email is   yourname@gmail.com

You can use yourname+forum1@gmail.com and yourname+forum2@gmail.com to sign up, and both are valid email address which you can receive mail at (gmail is awesome)

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