I wanted to start by saying I am not a fan of the forced username implementation. I do not understand why a username needs to be unique if I am using it on my local network, playing local content. Can we not have an admin account (like the email address that is registered with plex all these years…

[image] medianode: So now, the naming convention I have internally on my network needs to change because Plex deems it so! I don’t understand what you mean here. If you want, you can set a display name in https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/profile/edit (under Full Name).

@tom80H Not sure I am seeing outrage (yet) and @BigWheel already stated that the usernames are in fact public-facing and publicly discoverable, albeit via a tedious method (nothing that cannot be programmatically automated to produce a list of usernames). What has not been addressed thus far, is wh…

Username for Plex accounts have always been visible on the account switcher screen. After we introduced the full name field, we added that new field to this screen as well.

Like many internet services, Plex accounts have usernames that are unique across all users. That username is visible to any friends you have on Plex and visible to the other managed accounts in your Plex home. For the last few years, anyone who signed up for a new Plex account had their username se…

[image] ricardo: Considering some of the feedback on this thread, it sounds like we should consider an account level setting that prevents you from ever being listed in that future account search feature before it ships. That way you can control whether or not your account is discoverable by oth…

Why are so many people numb to this idea? We don’t want e-mail addresses as usernames flooding the forums which ARE publicly avail for data mining bots and other such nefarious activities. It really is a security and privacy concern for people that don’t know any better. If you don’t like your user…

I suggest that not having username could prevent you from being listed or find by others. Also PLEX is not social network so searching for friends makes no sense. I wonder what is the point of having username for searching online?

So who can I contact regarding issues with the newly assigned username for my account? I could have sworn I had a username already selected that matches my Forum name. However, I received the notice today that I was assigned a new username, which is randomized based on my email address. So now I hav…

Sounds like you might have created a separate user account at some point? Does the e-mail address linked to your regular account match that the e-mail was sent to?

That’s possible, but I don’t know how I can verify that. If I select “forgot password” link on the login page, it requires me to enter an email address and not the username. The email I received was sent to the email address I have associated with my account.

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ty_r04 March 23, 2022, 7:38pm 83

I would really support the idea of an account or server level that prevents being listed

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Thoughts on the forced Username implementation

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