does anybody know how long a nickname is blocked from taken again? I messed with
my Lego accounts (let's call them A and B) and when I had a nickname on A
and wanted it on B, I changed A to another one and was surprised I couldn't
take the name for B. It says it is taken which cannot be because only some minutes
were between changes.
Now, over 30 days have passed and I tried every single day but nickname is "taken".
I don't think someone really has taken it but there is a lock but how long??
Anybody has insights?
does anybody know how long a nickname is blocked from taken again? I messed with
my Lego accounts (let's call them A and B) and when I had a nickname on A
and wanted it on B, I changed A to another one and was surprised I couldn't
take the name for B. It says it is taken which cannot be because only some minutes
were between changes.
Now, over 30 days have passed and I tried every single day but nickname is "taken".
I don't think someone really has taken it but there is a lock but how long??
Anybody has insights?
How much over 30 days? 31 days, 40 days?
Someone said in one of the threads about nicknames that even LEGO support didn’t
know how long the nicknames were reserved.
We all supposed it would be at least 30 days because that’s how long you
have to wait to change your nickname again: if you want to revert to the previous
one after the 30 days have passed, they have to prevent someone from taking it.
But we don’t have proof of that or official word on that.
does anybody know how long a nickname is blocked from taken again? I messed with
my Lego accounts (let's call them A and B) and when I had a nickname on A
and wanted it on B, I changed A to another one and was surprised I couldn't
take the name for B. It says it is taken which cannot be because only some minutes
were between changes.
Now, over 30 days have passed and I tried every single day but nickname is "taken".
I don't think someone really has taken it but there is a lock but how long??
Anybody has insights?
Hi,
You cannot use the former username of another member, but can change your username
back to your former username.
does anybody know how long a nickname is blocked from taken again? I messed with
my Lego accounts (let's call them A and B) and when I had a nickname on A
and wanted it on B, I changed A to another one and was surprised I couldn't
take the name for B. It says it is taken which cannot be because only some minutes
were between changes.
Now, over 30 days have passed and I tried every single day but nickname is "taken".
I don't think someone really has taken it but there is a lock but how long??
Anybody has insights?
Hi,
You cannot use the former username of another member, but can change your username
back to your former username.
So bricklink told us to reserve account, including our usernames, then told us
to make secondary accounts meaning we loose all access to the usernames bricklink
told us to use?
does anybody know how long a nickname is blocked from taken again? I messed with
my Lego accounts (let's call them A and B) and when I had a nickname on A
and wanted it on B, I changed A to another one and was surprised I couldn't
take the name for B. It says it is taken which cannot be because only some minutes
were between changes.
Now, over 30 days have passed and I tried every single day but nickname is "taken".
I don't think someone really has taken it but there is a lock but how long??
Anybody has insights?
Hi,
You cannot use the former username of another member, but can change your username
back to your former username.
So bricklink told us to reserve account, including our usernames, then told us
to make secondary accounts meaning we loose all access to the usernames bricklink
told us to use?
Yeah, it’s nuts. Also, it’s a BL rule and it’s applied on LEGO accounts now?
does anybody know how long a nickname is blocked from taken again? I messed with
my Lego accounts (let's call them A and B) and when I had a nickname on A
and wanted it on B, I changed A to another one and was surprised I couldn't
take the name for B. It says it is taken which cannot be because only some minutes
were between changes.
Now, over 30 days have passed and I tried every single day but nickname is "taken".
I don't think someone really has taken it but there is a lock but how long??
Anybody has insights?
Hi,
You cannot use the former username of another member, but can change your username
back to your former username.
So bricklink told us to reserve account, including our usernames, then told us
to make secondary accounts meaning we loose all access to the usernames bricklink
told us to use?
Yeah, it’s nuts. Also, it’s a BL rule and it’s applied on LEGO accounts now?
Indeed, it’s wild. Hopefully the bricklink staff who posted that was just misunderstanding
the question and was stating the old rule and not a new one
does anybody know how long a nickname is blocked from taken again? I messed with
my Lego accounts (let's call them A and B) and when I had a nickname on A
and wanted it on B, I changed A to another one and was surprised I couldn't
take the name for B. It says it is taken which cannot be because only some minutes
were between changes.
Now, over 30 days have passed and I tried every single day but nickname is "taken".
I don't think someone really has taken it but there is a lock but how long??
Anybody has insights?
Hi,
You cannot use the former username of another member, but can change your username
back to your former username.
So bricklink told us to reserve account, including our usernames, then told us
to make secondary accounts meaning we loose all access to the usernames bricklink
told us to use?
Yeah, it’s nuts. Also, it’s a BL rule and it’s applied on LEGO accounts now?
Indeed, it’s wild. Hopefully the bricklink staff who posted that was just misunderstanding
the question and was stating the old rule and not a new one
does anybody know how long a nickname is blocked from taken again? I messed with
my Lego accounts (let's call them A and B) and when I had a nickname on A
and wanted it on B, I changed A to another one and was surprised I couldn't
take the name for B. It says it is taken which cannot be because only some minutes
were between changes.
Now, over 30 days have passed and I tried every single day but nickname is "taken".
I don't think someone really has taken it but there is a lock but how long??
Anybody has insights?
Hi,
You cannot use the former username of another member, but can change your username
back to your former username.
So bricklink told us to reserve account, including our usernames, then told us
to make secondary accounts meaning we loose all access to the usernames bricklink
told us to use?
Yeah, it’s nuts. Also, it’s a BL rule and it’s applied on LEGO accounts now?
Indeed, it’s wild. Hopefully the bricklink staff who posted that was just misunderstanding
the question and was stating the old rule and not a new one
Yes, but we are asking about reusing Lego account names.
For example, bricklink told us to reserve our names on Lego accounts. So I went
over and named my account “Nub’s Select” for example, then bricklink told us
to make a second account, however I need the same username as the first one,
so I changed my username on the first one, then tried using “Nub’s Select” on
the second account, however I can’t use it even tho it’s no longer being used
by the old account
Exactly that is the problem.
And even now, after 85 days if I counted correctly, okay 90 or 100 days mark
is still coming, but still...
What is odd, that every time I visit the nick name page, it already says the
name I tried the last time is taken. As if the last try is stored anywhere.
In General, Nubs_Select writes:
In General, TheBrickLinkTeam writes:
In General, Nubs_Select writes:
In General, SylvainLS writes:
In General, Nubs_Select writes:
In General, TheBrickLinkTeam writes:
In General, Sauerlandsteine writes:
Hello,
does anybody know how long a nickname is blocked from taken again? I messed with
my Lego accounts (let's call them A and B) and when I had a nickname on A
and wanted it on B, I changed A to another one and was surprised I couldn't
take the name for B. It says it is taken which cannot be because only some minutes
were between changes.
Now, over 30 days have passed and I tried every single day but nickname is "taken".
I don't think someone really has taken it but there is a lock but how long??
Anybody has insights?
Hi,
You cannot use the former username of another member, but can change your username
back to your former username.
So bricklink told us to reserve account, including our usernames, then told us
to make secondary accounts meaning we loose all access to the usernames bricklink
told us to use?
Yeah, it’s nuts. Also, it’s a BL rule and it’s applied on LEGO accounts now?
Indeed, it’s wild. Hopefully the bricklink staff who posted that was just misunderstanding
the question and was stating the old rule and not a new one
Yes, but we are asking about reusing Lego account names.
For example, bricklink told us to reserve our names on Lego accounts. So I went
over and named my account “Nub’s Select” for example, then bricklink told us
to make a second account, however I need the same username as the first one,
so I changed my username on the first one, then tried using “Nub’s Select” on
the second account, however I can’t use it even tho it’s no longer being used
by the old account
We're having the same issue, same situation as Nubs.
The account we have cannot have the correct nicknames and is stuck being officernosyscutter(some
number) and the freed up nickname cannot be used on it.
does anybody know how long a nickname is blocked from taken again? I messed with
my Lego accounts (let's call them A and B) and when I had a nickname on A
and wanted it on B, I changed A to another one and was surprised I couldn't
take the name for B. It says it is taken which cannot be because only some minutes
were between changes.
Now, over 30 days have passed and I tried every single day but nickname is "taken".
I don't think someone really has taken it but there is a lock but how long??
Anybody has insights?
Hi,
You cannot use the former username of another member, but can change your username
back to your former username.
So bricklink told us to reserve account, including our usernames, then told us
to make secondary accounts meaning we loose all access to the usernames bricklink
told us to use?
Yeah, it’s nuts. Also, it’s a BL rule and it’s applied on LEGO accounts now?
Indeed, it’s wild. Hopefully the bricklink staff who posted that was just misunderstanding
the question and was stating the old rule and not a new one
[…]
ie: name changes. I went through this myself as we wanted to keep "ScubaSteve".
After checking with some Lego contacts what they actually wanted was the "email"
changed and not the "account name". I changed my TLG email to the same
as my Bricklink address for the simple reason there is a higher requirement for
Bricklink data to be accurate as I am a Seller. ScubaSteve was a taken name in
lego.com accounts. By changing the email I was able to retain "scubasteve".
Not the other way around.
Hope that makes sense. The devil in bureaucracy is always in the terminology.
I agree it was not black and white.
If that’s the correct interpretation, it’s absolutely not what we were and are
still officially told.
I’m not saying you are wrong—even if you’re wrong —, I’m saying it’s not us
not understanding or misunderstanding what was said (terminology) but a completely
different thing than what was said and is still said (https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2670
).
You’ll also note that the help page has been modified to clarify that “Eventually,
your LEGO Account nickname will become your public username on BrickLink,” (my
emphasis)
because “This change will (sic) not happen on September 18th, 2025 during LEGO
Account integration but will happen in the months after the integration.”
So that “ScubaSteve” is still your username on BrickLink is explained and does
not contradict the common interpretation that the LEGO nickname needs to be reserved
because it will eventually be used for our BL username.
I find the bricklink link you posted to not be consistent with what I was told,
what I did and what that end result was.
From what I can see, the end result is concordant with the help page: your BL
username didn’t change, because BL usernames weren’t changed, because it’ll happen
later.
[…]
Bricklink then makes a post based on what it knew or was told at that time.
It’s been 3 years that BL has been saying that we need to reserve our BL usernames
as LEGO nicknames.
[…]
1. If you change your Lego name you can lose it during the first 60 days (may
have been 30days don't quite recall that part of the conversation) because
you cant change it,
2. During that period you could lose access to your name because another person
may commence using that name,
OP is trying to use their old LEGO account A’s nickname on their new LEGO
account and they can’t.
And they don’t think someone else took their nickname in the meantime.
So, if they are right in their assumption, (2) is false.
3. Bricklink has a multi facet identification. one part being a username, another
an email and 2 other identifiers which I will refrain from repeating,
That technically doesn’t make sense.
(“Technically” = in how accounts and databases work.)
Unless BL is very badly coded, which I don’t believe it is, an accounts is identified
by a unique and constant key (it can be multipart but the combination of the
parts is unique). The username and email address are just values attached to
the account. Obviously, the username and email address are unique too, but they
aren’t the key. They are unique to allow to find the key/account but they can
be changed without much ado because orders, Wanted Lists, messages, etc., are
all linked to that key, not to the username or the email address.
That’s Databases 101.
4. Email is the consistent identification parameter of identification as it is
linked to Orders, threads, emails, notifications and the list is constant. Your
username is not,
I believe that’s a misunderstanding of point (3) and on how one can identify
(= match) a LEGO account and a BL account.
IOW, yes, it’s obvious the email address is the one external element that can
allow to put an equal sign between a LEGO account and a BL account because it’s
controlled and verifiable by the user.
5. By changing your Lego user email address to that being used by Bricklink then
Bricklink cannot change your name during a merger, because the email is the same,
the User name remains unchanged,
I don’t know what happened to everybody individually but I think some had different
email addresses and all that happened to them is that the one that was on their
LEGO account overrode the one on their BL account… but their usernames didn’t
change.
6. The merging of names is based an email address and not a username,
Obviously, see comment on (4).
7. So I went onto Lego (my username was actually Burntmonkey, I change it to
"I am ScubaSteve" and I change my email address and identifiers on Lego
to that of Bricklinks already held information,
8. Names don't change or get taken by others, even when in use. Because its
based on an email address,
Nope. It’s not what we are talking about. We are talking about the future
use of the LEGO nickname as the BL username. Granted, we all thought it would
happen during the integration but it didn’t but it’s still planned and we still
need to “reserve” our usernames.
9. Providing you share a common email address on merger your name won't change.
See comments on (5) and (8).
10. The exception to that rule was when your name did not comply with infringements.
Those names had been identified several weeks before the merger and those affected
people were notified in advance.
Nope. That never happened. No one was notified of infringements in advance.
Either people already had LEGO accounts with valid nicknames or they created
new accounts and/or tried to change their nicknames and had the surprise to see
they weren’t compliant and needed to appeal.
11. Bricklink can't change what is does not know!!!
Again I agree that Bricklink post you attached was not clear, but I still dont
see how bricklink could have done anything else given no one saw what directions
were given to them by Lego. Likely by a person whose first language is not English.
Does that make sense?
No, it doesn’t. See comments above.
The BL usernames will change. And some store names will have to change
too. All that will happen even though BL is starting to understand it’s our
identities / brands (especially store names) and is trying to find ways to lower
the impact / smooth the consequences, but infringements are infringements and
LEGO can’t let them be (and, again, no one was notified of anything).
May I burn in hell for admitting you were right in the first line.
Germany, Nordrhein-Westfalen
France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
USA, California
Canada, Ontario
Luxembourg
—, I’m saying it’s not us
and I change my email address and identifiers on Lego
