I am not very au-fait with Discourse but I see my username is not the same as in Ubuntuforums.
Can this be changed to ajgreeny so it’s the same everywhere?
I think that option is under account preferences. I did it once and it seems I can’t do it again
Isn’t your discourse username connected to your ubuntu one username? You might be able to change it there.
Changing “username” is an option under your account preferences.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/u/<current-username>/preferences/account
Or graphically, it’s three clicks: Your avatar, then right-side-bottom (in blue), then Preferences.
NOTE: This is how I see it as a moderator. I don’t know which you can and cannot change. If it’s immutable, then a bit of reading at meta.discourse.com might be in order to suggest a way forward, unless a skilled admin happens by.
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I arrived to the Preferences → Account page, but I don’t see any way of changing my username there, it is hard coded.
Also, I haven’t seen how to get the symbol of Ubuntu Member in the avatar, I’ve seen others have it. I think it should be also in this page, (under Name and Title ? ), but I can’t see any option for that. I have my Ubuntu member email as primary email.
My username is also hard-coded. My name (optional) can be changed by me, but that’s a different item.
I did a quick search last night, and discovered that the username can be changed by moderators only. Therefore, anyone who wants to change their username will need to ask a mod to do it for them.
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I know I changed mine but it may have been allowed since it happened before I posted anything on here. It originally was the same as my launchpad site
I have had the same username for Ubuntu forums since I started here in 2005, ie, ajgreeny, with my “real name” in the ubuntu-one login etc as ajg.charlbury which has become my username on Discourse.
I will see if I can change my real name there to what I want my username here to be, ie, ajgreeny and then see what really does happen here.
EDIT:
No,that didnt do what I wanted as I couldn’t change the real name on ubuntu-one as I was told ajgreeny was already in use.
Total confusion on my part so i would appreciate some help here, and just to repeat myself, i want my usernames on both ubuntuforums.org and discourse.ubuntu.com to be ajgreeny, as it has been on thr ubuntuforums.org since i started in 2005!
I can indeed change anybody’s username.
However, that may promptly lock them out, as I cannot change their SSO.
Patience until an Admin can handle it properly is my counsel.
I learned from my SSO issues after I became a supermoderator that SSO is tied to launchpad you have to change your username there first before it can be changed on SSO, but I’m sure here that’s a mute point because it should be able to be done here with no trouble, I only mention it because y’all brought up SSO which isn’t an issue for this site I do not believe.
Well, I am very confused.
Having looked in more detail than I normally do when logging into ubuntuforums I see that my username there is shown as ajg.charlbury and my real name as ajgreeny.
Nevertheless I have always been and I am still always logged in to ubuntuforums as ajgreeny so I assumed that was my SSO username but apparently was wrong and I am unable to change my username in SSO because it tells me that ajgreeny is already in use.
You see my confusion?
Help needed if it’s possible, please!
I tried on launchpad today and the display name can change but, the original launchpad name will not change.
Does it tell you username already taken?
It throws an error regarding case size and number of characters and when I comply to the recommendations it fails to change. Then I got an error stating it can’t be changed.
I got the same error, they must be having issues, in 2016 when I tried to change it because I could not log into the forum using SSO and the forum admin control panel with the username I had the issue was the username I wanted was already taken I wonder if it had not been if this issue would have occurred or is it fairly new, probably new and needs reported.
Was able to change my name here with an _ like you.
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That is cool, I think I had to do that on IRC and it stuck.
I suspect it has to do with being promoted to mod. If @ajgreeny can change his, then I don’t think I’ll need to bother the admins. 
I agree , I didn’t go back to launchpad and try there yet. I am frogshair on IRC.
Maybe we don’t need to do anything on Launchpad…