# Changing my user name

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-my-user-name/1198>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Created:** [December 29, 2016, 11:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-my-user-name/1198 "2016-12-29T11:33:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![danielc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/danielc/32/220_2.png) [@danielc](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/danielc)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 11:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-my-user-name/1198/1 "2016-12-29T11:33:54Z")

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Hello,

I realize that this post doesn’t belong here, but I cannot figure out how to contact the site administrator, and I think that this question would be even more out of place in another forum:

Due to my lack of familiarity with discourse, I have ended up with a needlessly long user name, “Daniel\_Carrera”. I’m not sure what I did wrong, but I was hoping that one of the site administrators might be able to correct my mistake and perhaps change my user name to “danielc”. I looked for a “display name” option in the settings, but I failed to find one.

I guess that one form of site feedback that I could offer is that maybe there should be some easier-to-find instructions on how to contact the admin.

Thanks for the help.

Cheers,  
Daniel.

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**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ihnorton/32/26_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ihnorton)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 12:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-my-user-name/1198/2 "2016-12-29T12:58:58Z")

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Should be all set now.

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**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ihnorton/32/26_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ihnorton)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 12:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-my-user-name/1198/3 "2016-12-29T12:59:21Z")

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**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ihnorton/32/26_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ihnorton)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 1:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-my-user-name/1198/4 "2016-12-29T13:13:54Z")

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Also as far as I can tell, discourse doesn’t provide such a contact admin feature; this may be by design. (though you can pm above a certain trust level)

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**Author:** ![vchuravy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/vchuravy/32/8_2.png) [@vchuravy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vchuravy)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-my-user-name/1198/5 "2016-12-29T15:12:55Z")

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From TL1 you can send PMs and a list of admins and moderators is available under [About - JuliaLang](https://discourse.julialang.org/about).

For anybody else looking to change their name in the future. Please contact me directly.