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Anonymous
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What's happened with the login / registration process for the forums?

I'm not a regular visitor, but I did set up a forum username a while ago to ask a question.

When I tried to log in recently, I was prompted to log in to my online o2 account (rather than log in with my forum username). I was then promted to create a username for the forum so I put in my old username but it wouldn't accept it - not because it was already taken (by me!!) but because it contained dots, which it said isn't allowed. I replaced the dots with dashes, so now I have a new forum username ian-i-am (rather than ian.i.iam).

Having checked some of my old posts, I see my old account still exists but with underscores (instead of dots).

So now I've got a new forum username ian-i-am, linked to my main o2 account.

And my old username, which was ian.i.iam is now ian_i_am but I have no way of accessing it.

To be honest, I'm not really bothered - but it does all seem rather messy!!!

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Anonymous
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That would be awesome Leonard.
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Anonymous
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Thanks Leonard, but now I've started posting using my new username, I've no need to have my old username back. As I've mentioned, it looks like dots are a no-no in usernames so it's either dashes or underscores. I guess I'll just stick with being ian-i-am. wink

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