I’ve impersonated the system user to change the name and avatar to make it look way cooler and personalized for my forum. However every time I update the forum it renames the system user back to “system”. It’s not so bad to go in and rename it back, but I’m hoping there is a better way to do this. I guess I could make another user and re-author the system posts, but doing it the way I did just seemed to be the most intuitive.
I believe that this should be(come) an officially supported action (renaming and re-avataring the system user).
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That would be great. There is also the “site contact username” setting that I change to the same name, although this does stay set so I don’t have to worry about it. I only mention it because I’m pretty sure it was set to “system” when I started the forum, and might be a good part of the potential future system renaming feature.
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I was just looking to do the same on my forum. So, what is the best way to do this as of now?
“rename system username and change avatar.”
Changing the system user name should work OK in theory because we refer to the system user by ID and not name in the code … can you confirm @sam?
Do not change the system username, it is the unique identifier for the account.
In any case changing the system user avatar is definitely 100% safe.
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no guarantees here, code would need to be reviewed to confirm. we kind of expect the username to be system.
Except for that
- Avatar should be changeable eg: Profile - system - Discourse Meta
- Long name should be changeable
If either of these are reverted after seeding they should be raised separately as a bug.
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Got it, thanks for clarification on this.
In Russian forum system doesn’t make any sense though.
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we only support alpha in username handles so a much huger and more complex change would be needed.
Not necessarily, the name of the system user could be an admin site setting.
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I know this is an old request but just +1 on this one. Making it an admin configurable setting sounds like an amazing idea.
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Is there any update on whether the system username can be renamed, @codinghorror ?
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This would be appreciated. In our goat farmers community named “Козовод” (means one who farms goats) - I’d configure the system to use exactly that name with Russian letters.
Well, even if still limited to username-allowed symbols, being able to make this change in any way would be very helpful.
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I see there’s a system user setting now.
Is it okay to rename the system user by now, or still a problem?
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The is a site setting site contact username that allows the automatic messages to come from another user.
Renaming the system user isn’t configurable yet, but changing the automatic messages to an active admin of the site solves that need.
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Oi Rafael,
Right, that’s the setting I was referring to above.
It actually is configurable. An administrator can easily rename the system user via the configuration interface. The question is whether there is internal code that still refers to that user by id as indicated earlier in this thread, or if this is now fixed and it’s fine to rename that user.
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At our forum we’re trying to build personas around the system and bot user which are in line with the theme of the forum. It works very well to rename these users and change their profile but I wonder if there’s any way that I can make these changes persistent when updating the forum?
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目前情况依然如此，且未经过测试。不过，我们正在考虑为系统用户寻找一个比 
更友好的默认头像。
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看起来这种行为依然存在。我将系统用户重命名为“BetterTogether”，并更新了系统用户的管理员配置以匹配新用户名，但系统用户的用户名会时不时毫无预警地变回“system”。
是什么机制导致用户名被改回“system”，我该如何阻止这种情况发生？
谢谢。
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你好。我是这里的新手 
理论上，我是否可以在视图层创建一个辅助函数/方法，将“system”替换为用户自定义的名称？这样自定义的系统用户名将仅影响视图层。这可以作为一个半永久的解决方案。
目前，我想把精力集中在构建自定义的 Discourse 主题上，所以不想太担心后端的事情。
我希望我网站上所有官方账号都使用 <SiteName> <AccountName> 的格式，因此我想知道是否有专注于前端的解决方案来重命名“system”用户，而不必创建另一个可能除了显示名称外什么都不做的用户账号。
话虽如此，每次都要逐个检查所有用户名变量以查找特定用户名，听起来比创建另一个用户选项成本更高。
大家有什么想法吗？