| Why is my username unavailable? | RyanWesleySmith | 6/12/12 10:17 PM | I am trying to get the YouTube username "RyanWesleySmith". When I go to the actual URL, it says 404, but when I register the username it says "Username unavailable. Please help! |
| Re: Why is my username unavailable? | JDoors | 6/13/12 5:57 AM | YouTube channel usernames can only be used once. They cannot be used again, regardless of the status of the channel that first used it. Sorry. |
| Re: Why is my username unavailable? | MSIR60 (The Original) | 6/13/12 12:26 PM | it was probably used ages ago, and was deleted for whatever reason. |
| Re: Why is my username unavailable? | MSIR60 (The Original) | 6/13/12 12:28 PM | just an added word of advice, by very careful about letting everyone in the world know your real name and photo. some idiots prey on such people, tracking them to their school, address, everything. |
| Re: Why is my username unavailable? | GreenSinic | 6/13/12 5:54 PM | Someone made an account on a day in 2006, and was never back on since that day they actually created it. I wanted to use the username since I made my account so I had to use the same name but with a number. Why would YouTube make all the account name |
| Re: Why is my username unavailable? | JDoors | 6/13/12 6:24 PM | The only answer they've ever hinted at was "there is too much information associated with usernames." I take that to mean there are private messages, comments, links, embeds, all sorts of stuff that has a username associated with it. The way the site |
| Re: Why is my username unavailable? | MSIR60 (The Original) | 7/1/12 11:02 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Why is my username unavailable? | MSIR60 (The Original) | 7/1/12 11:04 AM | that's great to hear, JDoors. if the youtube code was originally written with the foresight of deleting and reassigning names, it would have been easy. the "modifications" that have been made, have probably been made "on top" of the original code, le |
| Re: Why is my username unavailable? | JDoors | 7/1/12 11:54 AM | Good point about the new code "on top" of the old, that would be unfortunate if it meant the new code couldn't make the changes we'd like to see. I don't imagine a site this large COULD start from scratch. How would you switch over? Shut down ten mil |
| Re: Why is my username unavailable? | MSIR60 (The Original) | 7/5/12 2:14 PM | if they re-wrote youtube from the ground up, they would only have to do the "closed for maintenance" thing, and they even give a warning about that. i do believe that all accounts could be moved to a new (as in "new") youtube, yes. if they hired the |
| Re: Why is my username unavailable? | JDoors | 7/5/12 3:04 PM | Heh-heh, you've been around long enough to know the ABSOLUTE CHAOS that results when they just make a new FEATURE live. It's ALWAYS a potential disaster as they can't predict everything that could possibly go wrong. Do that with the entire site? They |
| Re: Why is my username unavailable? | MSIR60 (The Original) | 7/10/12 2:01 PM | yes, i was kind of day dreaming when i wrote that. you know, thinking about how a competent organisation would do things. i used to work as a volume tester for one of the biggest banks in the world, sworn to secrecy, and saw how they refused to put o |