| 
Posted Nov 11, 2009 by Ferrettbadger, Only 5 years to hoverboards, Mr Fusion and Flying Cars!
What Gnomon said!
As soon as I read the first post I thought:-
"Hey but oyur hootoo nickname and sign in name are different."
and further thought:-
"What would you want your sign in name to be really long?"
FB
|
 
|  | |
| |
Posted Nov 11, 2009 by h5ringer - The Maestro Cat
<<How simple and appropriate it would be if we could all use our DNA code from a DNA data base to register with the BBC.>>
Too long: C-A-G-G-C-T-A-G-C............................
|
| | |
| |
Posted Nov 11, 2009 by Nick Reynolds
Hi everybody. Just a quick note to say that I've read your comments and will try and answer some of them on Thursday.
I'd also like to know how strongly you feel about having names longer than 30 characters. Do you feel like Peet, or is it something you could live with?
I'll catch up with this thread on Thursday.
|
| | |
| |
Posted Nov 11, 2009 by  Galaxy Babe - FP author
Hi Nick
I'm OK with my 11-spaces nickname, thanks
Galaxy Babe
 
|
| | |
| |
Posted Nov 11, 2009 by lanzababy - Pirate - Scout - adrift on life's ocean:Happy 2010 to All
But it has a space in between Galaxy and Babe - I'm not sure that will be acceptable as a sign in name.
I think there is a great deal of confusion between the sign in name and the display name. I think I understand the sign in name, but need clarification of what will happen to the additional 'remarks' we often use here on hootoo as a sort of status update.
I am glad that there is an opportunity to discuss this with you NickReynolds! thanks!
|
| | |
| |
Posted Nov 11, 2009 by Malabarista - any plan where you dismantle the protocol binders and make silly hats is a good plan!
 Taglines are fun, but they're not my identity. And some people's ultra-long ones are more annoying than they are amusing.
|
| | |
| |
Posted Nov 11, 2009 by No, four Goshos. Goshos for forks
I reckon that most of us here aren't too bothered what our login/username/sign in name is because most of us almost never use it, but we'd like to be able to use more than 30 characters for our onscreen h2g2 name, which I believe is what you're proposing, Nick. Is that right?
|
| | |
| |
Posted Nov 11, 2009 by kea
>>I'm registered on BBCid as Gnomon, only 6 letters, but my h2g2 Nickname is longer (set in My Preferences).<<
I understand the difference between the login in name and the h2g2 name (mine have always been different). I'm just not sure the h2g2 long names will work once h2g2 switches over to the new system next year, unless they do a special fix for us.
>>
I'd also like to know how strongly you feel about having names longer than 30 characters. Do you feel like Peet, or is it something you could live with?
<< Nick
I'm not sure what Peet feels, even rereading his last couple of posts 
I think the ability to change our h2g2 names, including having long taglines, is very important. Not only is it an entrenched part of h2g2 culture, being used in a variety of ways , but it's also something distinctive about h2g2 in relationship to the wider web world. Both those are worth preserving IMO, and if you can sort it so we retain that feature then I think many here would appreciate that alot, and it would help continue building the community feel of the place again.
|
| | |
| |
Posted Nov 11, 2009 by Ancient Brit
When moving the message boards over to the DNA website engine your sign in name became acceptable to all the DNA Web sites.
Will this be the same situation.
Sign for one and get access to all community sites driven by the DNA engine ?
|
| | |
| |
Posted Nov 11, 2009 by Dr Zen now with PhD Funding.
Humm I like mine - it's fun to be able to change it.
|
| | |
| |
Posted Nov 11, 2009 by Hypatia
I don't usually have a tag line longer than 30 characters, but I would prefer to keep the option to do so.
|
| | |
| |
Posted Nov 11, 2009 by Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady' --'Mufflewhump??' click here for definition...
*counts name*
Well, if (as I'm assuming) spaces count as part of the 30, I can only just barely get Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady' as a display name--no instructions on what to do if you receive a mufflewhump and want to know what it is, and no tagline. So it's just as well I haven't done anything except move PaperKid to a new email. Membership in the Royal Procrastinators is a good thing
|
| | |
| |
Posted Nov 11, 2009 by Ottox
Surely by now everybody knows what a mufflewhump is? 
|
| | |
| |
Posted Nov 11, 2009 by Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady' --'Mufflewhump??' click here for definition...
Nah--I stopped giving them out for awhile, and I do give them to the occasional newbie still
|
| | |
| |
Posted Nov 11, 2009 by Clive the flying ostrich - Thingite Warlord Emeritus: Amateur Polymath. (MMX)
In the coming year 2010.
We do NOT mention *that* number. 
<birthday-phobic/> 
|
| | |
| |
Posted Nov 11, 2009 by kipperonthefloor-Whovian, Fool, God, Pub LandLord, Terranic Transport Minister, Thief, Dragon, Eccentric Scientist, Temporal Investigator, Assassin, Dragon House Alchemist, Keeper.
My name is nowhere near the 30 mark..... unfortunatly, It's the wrong side of the limit.
|
| | |
| |
Posted Nov 11, 2009 by Galaxy Babe - FP author
<<But it has a space in between Galaxy and Babe - I'm not sure that will be acceptable as a sign in name>> that's not my sign-in name (which has no spaces)
|
| | |
| |
Posted Nov 11, 2009 by Vip
I'd like the option to keep the 30+ characters, but if you try and try and you can't make it work, we'll live. 
|
| | |
| |
| |
Key |  |  |
A: An older reply to the parent Posting
B: The parent Posting, to which this is a reply
C: A newer reply to the parent posting
D: The first reply to this Posting
| | |
Click on this icon to make a complaint about a specific Posting | |
|
Home
Reply
