# Renaming users - YAY or NAY?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/renaming-users-yay-or-nay/74481>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [Novembro 21, 2017, 4:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/renaming-users-yay-or-nay/74481 "2017-11-21T04:53:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)\
**Post date:** [Novembro 21, 2017, 6:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/renaming-users-yay-or-nay/74481/6 "2017-11-21T06:06:12Z")

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Though I’ve never tried this but AFAIK links are now tagged to the User ID instead of username or something and this shouldn’t create much differences … Needs a Rebake of Posts I guess … I’ll try to figure out and respond.

@Biscuit That’s a Nay as in my tests, it seems to break all the references to old username even after rebake so You should really be careful before taking this step.

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