# Anonymizing Users in Discourse **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymizing-users-in-discourse/86929 **Category:** Announcements **Tags:** new-feature, anonymization **Created:** [May 7, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymizing-users-in-discourse/86929 "2018-05-07T15:13:31Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 26
### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin) #### Post date: [August 21, 2023, 3:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymizing-users-in-discourse/86929/26 "2023-08-21T15:02:50Z")
7 posts were split to a new topic: [Anonymizing a user leaves mentions of them as their original username](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymizing-a-user-leaves-mentions-of-them-as-their-original-username/276045) --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymizing-users-in-discourse/86929)._