# Anonymous Username - over 100 users

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-username-over-100-users/117817
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 15, 2019, 3:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-username-over-100-users/117817 "2019-05-15T15:20:26Z")
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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2019, 5:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-username-over-100-users/117817/4 "2019-05-16T05:13:27Z")

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Surprisingly not the first time this has been reported:

> [@User\_name\_suggester will become buggy when in non-english version discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-name-suggester-will-become-buggy-when-in-non-english-version-discourse/107161):
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> 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.

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