I feel like the post just didn’t specify it, as they mentioned preventing visibility of violating usernames, would be stupid to mention that as the reason to then re-enable that bit, and at least they are doing something.
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With this update, now we can’t see past usernames being used but what about peoples who did bad things in their past (like Aloha_Vix on meep city, got exposed a lot on Youtube)? Her past username was Princess_Vix17 and if someone were to do another exposed video, they won’t have any proof anymore bc the past usernames been hidden.
I understand others points though.
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again, this isn’t really a valid point like i stated before
for moderation, we can just use userIDs which are completely unique…
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believe it or not dude, the api is still returning the old usernames of a person so they just literally did a visual change; i don’t see how this is a solution
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This is a terrible idea. Quite a few groups, and myself, use past usernames to keep users who have been known to cause trouble out, as you do not have a solution to keep repeat offenders out of groups, leaving us to manually keep track ourselves. There has to be a better solution than this.
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.
Edit
Hopefully alt detection is also added to permanent exiles on group level, alike added to experience’s BanAPI.
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We hope its really temporarily. This change basically helps scamming.
will we also get the option to disable previous names for groups?
- userids
- you can already search past usernames with this anyway so this doesn’t really help scamming
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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
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You can now ban members from groups, and automatically assign roles from in-game triggers!
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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.
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This needs to stay, Previous usernames were a violation of privacy especially for people who have changed their name irl.
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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 
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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.
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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!
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Even for the sake of user privacy and identification they won’t do this lmfao
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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.
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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?
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