Hi guys, Is it possible to manage ‘reserved usernames’ programmably? I understand that there is that thing called rails console - would that be where a novice should jump to right away, If it can be done there? Or else - how do you add many long words to your reserved usernames? Thanks.

I believe this can be done in the rails console and I think I have an idea of how. But if you are new to working in rails console and are unfamiliar with it, I would suggest learning a bit more about it before doing something like this. Mistakes in rails console can break your forum. For what it’s worth, likely better off doing it manually in the admin UI.

If you’re not familiar with rails, you can Reverse engineer the Discourse API and do it with curl or similar.

Reserved usernames programmably?

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lejeczek September 13, 2023, 5:34pm 3

webui will not work for me - I don’t mind broken things, that is what labs are for.

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