I find it quite annoying how people will make an account just to get a cool username then never use it again. So I propose that people who are super inactive as in "last seen 3 years ago" makes their username available for others to put to actual good use. This will allow people to get more easily recognizable and easily typeable usernames. I don't know exactly the way this would be implemented but it would be a great addition to PMC. Maybe also send out an email a month before this happens to warn the person and give them a chance.
If a user has been inactive for a long time I can understand how it can be a bit annoying if you like the name. If the person just made the account and never did anything with it and was inactive for a long time we can free up the name upon request but if the person made/uploaded/posted something then no matter how long they are inactive the name is theirs because while they might not use the site currently/anymore it wouldnt be right for us to change how people can find their work when coming from other places that person exists.
I thought of an idea for that, tho I didn't create the ticket. My idea is that once a member reached a certain level (idk what's a good level, tho), this wouldn't happen to them.
that makes sense actually. really low level tho (there's always a swarm of level 1s). like how some video games eliminate most of their bot problems by locking features behind a requirement that will take no time at all for the single normal player, but be hell for anyone who wants to mass produce plebeian bots.
What will happen to these accounts? I don't think they should be deleted, just renamed, so their username is available. Maybe add "_Inactive" to the original username (Ex: "User" would be changed to "User_Inactive").
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Inactive users regarding their usernames