# Replace the term “user”

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-the-term-user/254467>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [February 8, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-the-term-user/254467 "2023-02-08T14:32:46Z")\
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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:** [February 8, 2023, 2:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-the-term-user/254467/2 "2023-02-08T14:39:57Z")

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Discourse has such a wide range of use cases that I don’t think any of those are generic enough to work.

Is this a big problem though?

It’s still the norm in modern operating systems to refer to accounts as users, and sifting through my mailbox a lot of big online services use the term interchangeably with accounts.

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