I have several aliases on these forums. Next to them on the My Account page is a single Delete button, right next to a column of Make Default and Edit buttons.
What does it do when pressed? I want to get rid of some aliases, but as they don't each appear to have their own delete button, I fear what it might do.
Also, what happens to the posts of a deleted alias? Do they just revert to the default alias? Or do they stay listed as the deleted alias?
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That is true!
Not that I would know anything about aliases as I don't really have much use for them.
You can delete up to (I think) the fifth post on an alias. I'm not sure what happens to those first few posts but I could test it..
You can edit an alias up until the 10th post but as soon as you make one post you can no longer delete an alias, just edit it. Unless things have changed in the last few years.
Good to know. So that explains why I have only one delwte button. Only one alias has 0 posts (coincidentally, it is my oldest one). XD
I was afraid the one button would delete all my aliases, or even delete my account.
Is there a limit to the number of aliases you can have?
Good to know. So that explains why I have only one delwte button. Only one alias has 0 posts (coincidentally, it is my oldest one). XD
I was afraid the one button would delete all my aliases, or even delete my account.
Is there a limit to the number of aliases you can have?
I do not believe so, if I recall correctly somebody had made it a goal of theirs to make 1000 different aliases, or maybe it was just 100... and started a thread about it somewhere around these parts but I think they gave up on the project.
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I do not believe so, if I recall correctly somebody had made it a goal of theirs to make 1000 different aliases, or maybe it was just 100... and started a thread about it somewhere around these parts but I think they gave up on the project.Good to know. So that explains why I have only one delwte button. Only one alias has 0 posts (coincidentally, it is my oldest one). XD
I was afraid the one button would delete all my aliases, or even delete my account.
Is there a limit to the number of aliases you can have?
That doesn't sound like something someone would do.
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Good to know. So that explains why I have only one delwte button. Only one alias has 0 posts (coincidentally, it is my oldest one). XD
I was afraid the one button would delete all my aliases, or even delete my account.
Is there a limit to the number of aliases you can have?
If there is I'll find it!
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I do not believe so, if I recall correctly somebody had made it a goal of theirs to make 1000 different aliases, or maybe it was just 100... and started a thread about it somewhere around these parts but I think they gave up on the project.Good to know. So that explains why I have only one delwte button. Only one alias has 0 posts (coincidentally, it is my oldest one). XD
I was afraid the one button would delete all my aliases, or even delete my account.
Is there a limit to the number of aliases you can have?
I did not give up, I started working full time again so i had to cut it back to being more of a casual hobby as opposed to helping keep the madness of parenthood at bay.
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I did not give up, I started working full time again so i had to cut it back to being more of a casual hobby as opposed to helping keep the madness of parenthood at bay.
Well, just know the project did not go unnoticed or unappreciated. How far have you made it so far?
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I did not give up, I started working full time again so i had to cut it back to being more of a casual hobby as opposed to helping keep the madness of parenthood at bay.Well, just know the project did not go unnoticed or unappreciated. How far have you made it so far?
Too far.
There is almost certainly a hard limit to the number of aliases a single account can have, but it's probably buried somewhere really deep in the forum code, and it could be a really big number. While I'm not a programmer, one thing I have come across time and again over the years is a limit of 2^n or 2^n-1 on things, where n is an almost arbitrary integer some coder put in once-upon-a-time because "nobody's ever going to need that many". So the milestone alias numbers are quite likely to be 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, etc, where if you create alias number 129, you know that you will be able to get up to at least a total of 255.
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There is almost certainly a hard limit to the number of aliases a single account can have, but it's probably buried somewhere really deep in the forum code, and it could be a really big number. While I'm not a programmer, one thing I have come across time and again over the years is a limit of 2^n or 2^n-1 on things, where n is an almost arbitrary integer some coder put in once-upon-a-time because "nobody's ever going to need that many". So the milestone alias numbers are quite likely to be 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, etc, where if you create alias number 129, you know that you will be able to get up to at least a total of 255.
great... now you've just given the Cap'n a goal....
