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Your Favourite New Year Present: Change Handle Before the January 10th For Free!
By MikeMirzayanov, history, 8 years ago, In English

Hurry! Only until the 10th of January, you can change your handle (but only once)! Note that it will be possible to roll back the changes or change the handle again only after a year. Be careful what you wish for.

You can change your handle to the new one which wasn't used before by anybody or which was used by you before. The links to a profile page with old handle would automatically redirect to the actual profile.

Talking about handles I always reminisce the following story. Once a user wrote me the message: "Please change my handle from I_love_Valya to I_love_Sveta, as I no longer love Valya ..."

Happy New Year!

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8 years ago, # |
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Thanks for the gift Mike. :D

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I sign in with Gmail so what to type in the password field when I want to change my handle? Because I basically have no password for CodeForces.

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For free? What does it cost otherwise?

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every year a lot of people I know just disappear and other names appear but I don't know who were they(their old handles), in my opinion your handle is your identity and changing it makes you other person for most of the others, that's why I don't change my handle.

I wish if the the admins make a feature to show the list of one's old handles in his/her profile so people can know who was the person.

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    8 years ago, # ^ |
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    What you say is true about people with great successes in the past.
    But some need to change and have new character.

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8 years ago, # |
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I wish to be a fake Legendary Grandmaster.

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how we can do that??

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    8 years ago, # ^ |
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    How interesting!!!
    You just made this account and now want to change your handle.

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What about this idea: make some type of masquerade, but not with colors, as in previous year, but with nickname? I mean, what about make it possible to change nickname twice during New Year Holidays? IMHO, that would be quite funny. Actually, I want to change my nickname but I don't know, would it be a great idea or not.

Как насчет такой идеи: сделать что-то вроде карнавала, но не с цветами, как в прошлом году, а с никами? Я имею в виду сделать возможным смену ника дважды на протяжении новогодних праздников? Мне кажется, что это будет довольно весело. К тому же, я хочу поменять свой ник, но не знаю, насколько он будет хорош.

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And you say one love lasts one year (at least)?! And no "Magic" this year?

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Seems that the redirection from old username to new one isn't configured properly. On Chrome, it may cause error ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS.

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I love my new name! Pusheen!

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Why can't us delete the account??

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How about fake colors like previous year?

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what about fake colors ? will they happen this year ?

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but how to change my handle please...

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Can I change my rate instead of my handel XD

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It's really sad when you lose a bet about your Codeforces handle...

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Annoyingly, it's impossible to take the names of people who changed their handle FROM the one you want to something different. That means that this handle is used by nobody but you still can't take it, even if it has been free for a year :(

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I wanna handle consisting of 25 symbols but the maximum allowed length is 24 :(

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My handle didn't change on new submissions (nor on old ones). Is there something wrong?

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I changed my handle but still the old handle appears in all my submissions, anyone know why?!

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Who draw the picture from post? Mike, you, or maybe there is nice site with programming pictures?))

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The people who earlier had added us friend , will they still be able to see us in their friend list?

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Please help me... I change my handle to this, now I can not see my profile.

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Feels like many div 1 coders have been dying to try out the cyan color hehe...

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Now I can't see my profile, not any one :/ Please solve the BUG. MikeMirzayanov

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Red and legendary red were expected to be the favorites, but cyan turned out to be the people's choice color!

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There's a bug to be fixed. I changed my handle to "I_love_CC". In the profile page it's changed, but it still remains the old handle "zkx06111" in the room I was competing (at the #338 Round).

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When people be waiting for their Christmas presents but you're all about that New Year present.

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