# Accepted invitation notifications 404 if username is changed
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/accepted-invitation-notifications-404-if-username-is-changed/47736
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [July 25, 2016, 3:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accepted-invitation-notifications-404-if-username-is-changed/47736 "2016-07-25T03:54:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@barryvan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barryvan)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2016, 3:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accepted-invitation-notifications-404-if-username-is-changed/47736/1 "2016-07-25T03:54:09Z")
Having just sent out a whole slew of invitations, I’ve seen this happen a few times now. People accept the invitation with one username, but then change their mind. If I then follow the notification link, I get a 404 page. Ideally, this would redirect to the appropriate user’s page.
I’ve put this in as a bug because from a UX perspective, it feels buggy – the notification is right there, telling me about this user, but doesn’t work when I click on it. It was put in as a feature request before:
> [@Track username changes in invite acceptance links](https://meta.discourse.org/t/track-username-changes-in-invite-acceptance-links/32082):
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> Now that we’re liking to the user who accepted an invite, I’m hitting 404’s if they change their username after being invited. If it’s not easy to track that change with the new username, getting sent to the list of redeemed invited with newest first would be OK.
(I’m not 100% sure on the accepted etiquette here on meta. In composing this post, it suggested that as a possible duplicate, but when I went to reply to that post, it warned me that it was very old and perhaps not a good idea. Which is preferred?)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2016, 5:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accepted-invitation-notifications-404-if-username-is-changed/47736/2 "2016-07-25T05:07:24Z")
No keep this in the one topic please.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2016, 5:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accepted-invitation-notifications-404-if-username-is-changed/47736/3 "2016-07-25T05:07:27Z")