Support changing username to secondary blog
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	matt
	Jul 22 2022, 9:52 PM

Description

Overview

Users should be able to change their username to a collection alias already in use, as long as they also own that blog. This simply makes a secondary blog into their primary one.

Background

Previously requested on the forum:

Also requested privately.

Implementation

Before changing primary collection name and adding a redirect, check if the collection exists and is owned by the user. If so, skip those steps and save the new username information.

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		Status	Assigned	Task
		Open	None	T897 Support changing username to secondary blog (WriteFreely)
		Open	matt	T896 Support changing username to secondary blog

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matt triaged this task as High priority.Jul 22 2022, 9:52 PM

matt created this task.

matt mentioned this in T897: Support changing username to secondary blog (WriteFreely).

matt added a parent task: T897: Support changing username to secondary blog (WriteFreely).

matt mentioned this in T513: Support changing secondary blog aliases.Jul 22 2022, 9:55 PM

matt added a commit: Restricted Diffusion Commit.Jul 25 2022, 7:11 PM

matt added a commit: Restricted Diffusion Commit.

Things that might improve the UX:

When changing username, add a note that the primary blog URL will be updated (this also affects federation)
When changing username to secondary blog, mention that that blog will become the primary one

Issues right now:

This can strand a Snap.as profile. Since user can only view / post albums to their primary collection, if they do that and then switch primary collections, they will lose edit access to their old profile. Need to fix this to close this issue.

Still need to fix the Snap.as issue.

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