# Offering blank username suggestions rather than ‘UserN’ at signup

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/offering-blank-username-suggestions-rather-than-usern-at-signup/391542>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** fixed, signup\
**Created:** [December 17, 2025, 10:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offering-blank-username-suggestions-rather-than-usern-at-signup/391542 "2025-12-17T10:39:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![brenna12](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/brenna12/32/208356_2.png) [@brenna12](https://meta.discourse.org/u/brenna12)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 10:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offering-blank-username-suggestions-rather-than-usern-at-signup/391542/2 "2025-12-17T10:55:34Z")

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This would be a good solution for my community too, the username field auto-populates with an available username (in UserXYZ style). Although this field is editable, and I have added some custom text to make new users aware of this, we are still getting a lot of new users with default usernames 😕

Would be very happy to see this introduced! 🙂

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