Signing on today, I was showing up as "user351327" on SO and "user46143" on serverfault. Looking at my profile, every field was blank.
I'm not sure if any of the fields besides display name used to have a value.
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possibly related: Username missing from Launchpad OpenID - replaced with user{number}, probably this is a side-effect from the new global authentication.– Tobias KienzlerSep 14, 2010 at 10:53
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I can confirm this problem (openids: nhnb.de, nhnb.myopenid.com)– Hendrik BrummermannSep 14, 2010 at 11:18
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@user137430 / @nhnb.de: that's odd, I use myopenid, too. But maybe because I edited my username here before (in fact, I signed up on myopenID for SOFU) I'm not affected– Tobias KienzlerSep 14, 2010 at 12:17
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same problem here.. as you can see! I don't know about other things blanking though. my questions and activity and so on are still there. I'm not bothered about name being blank.. and likewise. I don't know if it ever had a value.– barlopSep 14, 2010 at 12:58
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@user148605: you can solve this problem following these instructions. It shouldn't happen again then, but whatever the original source of your username was, will apparently be no longer used– Tobias KienzlerSep 14, 2010 at 13:02
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@Jeff Atwodd - LOL, why is this status "completed"? Completed that we are not going to do anything more about it? -- Completed implies that the bug was fixed. But your answer says that it is by design. Was there a change to make this not happen any more or was it "by design" that this happens?– VaccanoSep 20, 2010 at 15:52
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We are no longer inferring usernames from openids.
If you want a username you must set one.
This is by design and will remain this way from this point onward.
answered Sep 14, 2010 at 23:02
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2Um... I may be blasted for this, but.... why? It was easier on us to just infer it and transfer all the demographics from other accounts. Not that it is a huge inconvenience for me to go fill it in again on my super user account, but... why make me do it?– VaccanoSep 15, 2010 at 16:20
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2I'm also interested (out of curiosity) in knowing the why of this change.– juanSep 15, 2010 at 16:34
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@Vaccano: Search for "2010-09-14" on meta.stackexchange.com/questions/59445/….– sbiNov 11, 2010 at 11:29