[All Platforms][Other] Change profile URL of old accounts

[Monica1213]

I really appreciate Spotify allowing you to change your display name.

I get that the username is used as ID, so this is a good solution if it weren't for one thing: The URL of your profile.

If you created an account before your username started being random letters and numbers, it will continue to show your username.

So if you were to change your display name to be something else, whatever you named yourself might show up on playlists and what not, but the old username will continue to follow you in the URL.

And I get you can't simply change the URLs to be the same as the display name, since from what I've seen, you can have identical display names, and that would get messy.

So I think it would only be fair that if on request, your URL can be changed to something else.

Maybe put a limit on it, so it can't be done frequently.

I think that would just be great for everyone who feels like completely getting rid of old names they're embarrassed of and what not.

**bleep**, I would be fine even if the URL just followed the same random number and letter formula.

Just give us the option to do it at least.

It would just be helpful and make the whole name changing thing as good as it can be.

[Luan]

Updated on 2022-08-16

Hello and thanks for bringing your feedback to the Idea Exchange. We've marked this as 'New Suggestion'.
Spotify Staff will look into this idea once it reaches the necessary amount of votes.

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[HeroRobertBrine]

Oh thank the heavens they didn’t shoot this down! 

[HeroRobertBrine]

Here are all the links to my other ideas:

• A competent Chat system
• Desktop VS Mobile 

[hesedee-chua]

Hope that they really allow us to customize our username. I'm really jealous that old users were able to customize their username before. It feels that your account is very personalized.

[Luan]

Updated on 2022-08-24

Hey! Looks like your idea is growing up fast and it's amazing! We are going to change its status to 'Good Suggestion' now and we hope it continues being supported by more and more users.
Thanks again for your suggestion. We really appreciate it 🙂

More information about how the Spotify Idea Exchange works can be found here.

[Ferms_Wolf]

I agree with this...

[Josiedaniellem]

I agree

[MABoykin13]

That would be awesome feature update! Great idea! 

[justleah]

Yes please! I'm trans and I reeeally don't like seeing my deadname... 

[username-is-taken]

If other social media sites can let you update your vanity profile URL, why can't you Spotify?

Come on, it's not that hard to implement.