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I changed my network-wide display name some time ago (from "Vikki - formerly Sean" to just "Vikki"), and the new name shows up correctly on my profile pages on the individual Stacks:
However, my network profile still shows the previous name:
I've already tried updating my network-profile info, as detailed in the answers here, but the outdated displayname still shows up on my network profile. Why is this happening, and how do I fix it?
Turns out I hadn't updated my network profile after all - I only thought I had. I'd definitely done the "save and copy changes to all public profiles" thingamajiggy when updating the display name on my individual-Stack profiles, and I thought I'd tried the "Update profile info" button on my network profile as well.
Apparently, I hadn't, as doing so fixed the problem:
Protip: hitting "Save and copy changes to all public communities" when updating your profile on an individual Stack propagates the change(s) to all your other individual-Stack profiles, but does not update your network profile. Only the "Update profile info" thingy on the network profile itself can do that!
