Somewhat related, when a user at osm.org renames their user account the account here doesnât âfollowâ the name change, and in fact I canât immediately see how a user here can rename their account name.
Weâve just had an example of a user contributing at osm.org under âname Aâ, posting here as âname Aâ, being blocked on osm.org due to the nature of their changes, deleting that account on osm.org, creating a new account on osm.org as âname Bâ, posting here as âname Bâ, and then renaming âname Bâ to âname Aâ at osm.org.
This isnât a new problem; help.osm.org was the same.
This site should update the next time they login - obviously it canât update synchronously but we have enabled the option to update the username next time they authenticate.
TomH is right, the only thing to be aware of is that we donât authenticate very often on Discourse.
So itâs good to know that you may have to logoff/login in order to update your details from the OSM Oauth API (including your email address if Iâm right).
In the particular example that I was thinking of, the user account was actually deleted over at the OSM side so authentication by it at Discourse will never happen.