We have really weird issue, up until user 100 the username was in this format anonymousxxx e.g. anonymous10, anonymous55, anonymous100 However as soon as we reached over number 100 anonymous user accounts, they are now in this format: 9ab9441ad3316f5d2d35cd4807317cc 01c3b651778b7871a7640511daa8eb8

Think i can see why looking at this code, but it seems a bit short sighted to only allow 100 random users? def self.find_available_username_based_on(name, allow_username = nil) name = fix_username(name) i = 1 attempt = name **until attempt == allow_username || User.username_available?(attempt) || i > 100** suffix = i.to_s max_length = User.username_length.end - suffix.length - 1 attempt = "#{name[0..max_length]}#{suffix}" i += 1 end until attempt == allow_username || User.username_available?(attempt) || i > 200 attempt = SecureRandom.hex[1..SiteSetting.max_username_length] i += 1 end attempt end

Surprisingly not the first time this has been reported: [image] User_name_suggester will become buggy when in non-english version discourse Bug Hi, this is Lisbeth from Taiwan. We use Traditional Chinese version discourse here, and we found this bug when our anonymous username become random hex which looks creepy for friendly users LOL. Our first 100 anonymous username are something like 1111, 1112…111100, after 111100, it will become random hex. So I keep digging the source code, and see that anonymous user name use a user_name_suggester.suggest, it will put Anonymous in Chinese (匿名) these two words into the suggester, when it go th… Think that last report went misunderstood, too.

yeah, it hasn’t been fixed, so we have to change the name every 99 times :sleepy:

I suggest we fix this @tgxworld

This is a tricky problem we need a different algorithm here. Fixed per: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/a8fbb19e7c728f5f33d2b784530635791ea959e3

Thanks guys. I was going to look at doing a change so when the username is ‘anonymous’ it works slightly different and checks for the last one created. But @sam 's solution seems a lot better.

Anonymous Username - over 100 users

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) May 16, 2019, 4:58am 3

Is this an actual bug @sam?

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Anonymous Username - over 100 users

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