Track username changes in invite acceptance links

[watchmanmonitor (Allen Hancock)]

Now that we’re liking to the user who accepted an invite, I’m hitting 404’s if they change their username after being invited.

If it’s not easy to track that change with the new username, getting sent to the list of redeemed invited with newest first would be OK.

[Sander78 (Sander Datema)]

This just happened to me. Confusing.

[barryvan (Barry van Oudtshoorn)]

This remains an ongoing issue. As noted in

Accepted invitation notifications 404 if username is changed

Having just sent out a whole slew of invitations, I’ve seen this happen a few times now. People accept the invitation with one username, but then change their mind. If I then follow the notification link, I get a 404 page. Ideally, this would redirect to the appropriate user’s page. I’ve put this in as a bug because from a UX perspective, it feels buggy – the notification is right there, telling me about this user, but doesn’t work when I click on it. It was put in as a feature request before: …

I would recommend that this be classified as a bug – to the user, it feels as though Discourse has thrown an error when used in the expected fashion. @watchmanmonitor’s suggestion of sending the user to a list of redeemed invites, ordered by recency, would be an appropriate workaround that would resolve the perception that Discourse has broken.