Groups are adding permanent exiles soon. It’s in the Roadmap. Second, respectfully, it’s bad practice to use usernames, and better to use UserIds. This applies in scripting, and it should also apply on the site.
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Hopefully alt detection is also added to permanent exiles on group level, alike added to experience’s BanAPI.
We hope its really temporarily. This change basically helps scamming.
will we also get the option to disable previous names for groups?
Who’s “we”. This is a good update that helps with privacy reasons, and as for scammers and etc, they can easily be saved in many databases with userids, which I believed has been aforementioned
You can now ban members from groups, and automatically assign roles from in-game triggers!
Could you please instead make it a privacy feature to let us users toggle it on and off from the settings when visiting own profile? I know a few people that have used their real name, even full name and birthdate in there and later had to change accounts completely for privacy reasons. I know they warn about that beforehand but there’s no way to undo the damage.
This needs to stay, Previous usernames were a violation of privacy especially for people who have changed their name irl.
I love this, as someone who has been on the platform for a while and am starting to turn my skills into something professional I am glad that I am no longer known as AWESOMEISEPIC10 
This is something a lot of people has been concerned about and people have been waiting for something to be done, and here we are now.
This is kind of a great thing if past usernames were hidden from both Search and Profile, but…
This makes it probably the most non sense update since I am pretty sure maybe not here but a lot of people are happy with their past usernames not showing on their profile anymore (Or well at least I am), this “safety solution” would actually work if past usernames were hidden from both profile and search, most people that change their username is usually because they don’t want to be known by their past username anymore. So having these disabled on profiles THEN enabled back but now not being able to see them on the search tab is kind of completely pointless since your just fixing half of the problem.
Personally, just have past usernames hidden from both profiles and search and it would help A LOT to those who can’t rely on contacting support to remove either names with personal information or just names they don’t want to be associated with. That would just fix the entire problem.
At some extent if we can’t have that, at least consider giving us the option to toggle the visibility of past usernames on our profiles.
Once again, great idea in paper but the execution is questionable for saying the less.
I really hope someone from Roblox staff reads this reply - could this PLEASE be made into a privacy feature? Please, let us hide past usernames. Maybe if the username change is 6+ months old, it could be hidden on the profile. (to prevent scammers abusing this)
I know that there are tons of people out there including me who changed our username and we cringe over stupid names we used years ago. This would mean so much!
Even for the sake of user privacy and identification they won’t do this lmfao
Sorry, but are there any plans to announce this in #updates:announcements instead of just in an obscure bug report?
I feel like alot of people don’t know about this, and there are some people that could share very valuable feedback about this if they knew about it.
I hope this change isn’t permanent. The staff on this thread have already stated, that previous usernames will reappear in December, which I am happy with.
If previous usernames are a privacy violation, there’s already a support route to hide specific usernames if your username included your full name - I do not see only first name on your past usernames as a privacy issue as it does not make you personally identifiable, unless there is context in other usernames that could identify you which is why I think that hiding previous usernames should be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
Community is a major factor in Roblox, unlike other platforms where the system for communication is completely different. Being able to see who you’ve interacted with in a platform where your username is universal throughout Roblox is essential, especially for smaller community-based projects and industry “hiring” groups.
A famous case where Roblox did hide someone’s username is with Anuxo/Ayphio, a once-major group owner who was accused of online dating under the Anuxo name but the hiding of the username led to confusion as to who actually was being accused… This is why I think that hiding previous usernames should be done on a case-by-case basis to check whether your username is actually personally identifiable, or whether the username is inappropriate and should be hidden.
Also remember that your past usernames will never be completely hidden just because of this change - internet archives do exist.
Then why not make it optional to hide/free a username (separately) after a few months of having a username so it benefits everyone involved?
Hi - my point is that you chose to make that username, that username will now always be public especially as this is the internet. Hiding them on the website doesn’t mean no one will find those usernames, and hiding them doesn’t mean it’s impossible to find those usernames.
A friend of mine tried using this “alternative route” to remove a year of birth from their username, and their support request was swiftly denied as there apparently wasn’t enough PII in the username for it to be removed
This is a very basic privacy feature that has been around almost everywhere since the beginning of the internet, there is no need to be a contrarian about it.
Your point seems to partly revolve around malicious users being able to go under a different identity, this is already possible by just creating a new account under a new user, which is also far less traceable.
On Roblox’ behalf, it is very rarely good practice to withhold certain features due to a minority group of bad actors, essentially ruining it for everyone else.
If you’re truly concerned about that factor, you should pivot your concerns to the actual Moderation.
Some people simply wish to no longer be associated with a previous user, whether that be out of embarrassment, privacy, out of professionalism or anything else that might come to mind.
They should have the absolute right to such an option.
Last year there were about 134 million people born. Unless there was other context in the username or other past usernames, I don’t think your friend could be handpicked through just year of birth. I’m not sure about Australian laws (although I think they are stricter), but USNIST state that one’s date of birth is PII only if linked to something else.
@wickedyboo
The caveat of this is that you lose (possibly) years of game progress, avatar items and game passes that cannot be transferred. Not everyone will just simply create a new account, because they will lose so much.
@TimeFrenzied
I wouldn’t mind hiding usernames only, only if there is a valid privacy reason to do so that is manually reviewed. Such as deadnames, full names, first/last name + something else. Not just because someone doesn’t want their username to be public.
I think usernames should only be freed if their account is terminated with appeal window closed. This could be a problem if someone was trying to find another person with a username, but they’re an entirely different person.
The thing is - if you change your Discord username, it gets freed up and isn’t saved anywhere. Previous usernames also don’t show on YouTube, Instagram, Minecraft, Xbox, Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat (here and on Instagram past usernames are only visible to yourself), etc…
Pretty much every social media platform & game does not store or at the very least does not show previous usernames publicly. Roblox is one of the only companies that does this. And as many have mentioned here username changes could be made private after a specific amount of time if you’re worried about scammers/predators abusing it.