# 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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**Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 4:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-the-term-user/254467/6 "2023-02-08T16:13:12Z")

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I agree, and I think this has come up internally a couple times lately. We don’t have an initiative to retroactively replace all the occurrences of “user” at this point, but we’ll more often be using alternatives like “member” or “person” when we’re adding new text or making updates to existing text.

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