# "use email for username and name suggestions"

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-email-for-username-and-name-suggestions/318791
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** invites
**Created:** [July 27, 2024, 6:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-email-for-username-and-name-suggestions/318791 "2024-07-27T18:23:04Z")
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### Author: ![CaptainJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/53a042/32.png) [@CaptainJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CaptainJ)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2024, 6:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-email-for-username-and-name-suggestions/318791/1 "2024-07-27T18:23:04Z")

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I don’t have this checked, but Discourse is still autofilling the username fields with the first part of email addresses when people follow an invite link.

I tried unchecking the ‘full name’ autofill option too, but that doesn’t help.

 ![Screenshot 2024-07-27 at 19.19.22](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/3/d/e3dd12f7cc037f35f10b495b57f576044fa4218b.png)

Many of my users have low technical ability and I really don’t want to give their email addresses away.

Any idea what might be going wrong?

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