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To uniquely identify 
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Thanks for that stunning insight! 
The site has both username and displayname fields. I can understand username being unique, but display name seems odd.
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People don't reply to people based on their user names. They reply to the display name - imagine how difficult if you want to make a point to Chris, for instance, only to find out that you are replying to some 12 year old kid who's also called Chris Maunder, and has nothing to do with the site.
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Are you saying I'm older than 12 years? 
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Chris Maunder
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You might be, but my sense of humour isn't.
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Member 8353125 wrote: Why does display name have to be unique?
As I recall, it didn't have to be before. They must have changed it. I do recall in the past that some members had changed their display name to then make a post that made it look like it was from someone else. I say this is a good change if it needs to be unique.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: They must have changed it
Yep, about 10 years ago.
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Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Yep, about 10 years ago.
I suppose I could be wrong (it did happen once before) but it seems like this happened within the last 2 years.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Trust me on this
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Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Trust me on this
If you insist.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I think Ryan's probably remembering that there was a spate of people impersonating other people's names by mucking about with HTML to appear to be the same display name.
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To stop members pretending to be other members.
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Chris Maunder
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Must resist the urge to comment that I don't want anything to do with your member.
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Sorry if this has already been addressed.
what is the refresh rate (Web003). Whether I am at home or at work, it can take up to 30 mins before I see new posts from myself or other people.
Latest version of Chrome.
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For forums it's always up to date. The cache is updated when posts are added, removed or modified.
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Chris Maunder
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I am guessing these would be forums other than the Lounge, because I am not seeing the "always up to date" part.
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I see the rant icon as the answer icon in the forums. What gives? Some kind of deployment borking things?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Any quick examples you can point me to?
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Chris Maunder
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Don't see it on my iPad, just in Firefox whatever-is-the-latest on my laptop (as of my last visit to the site on that browser, several hours ago). Might just be a FF cache goof. I have seen things like that quite a bit with the past several versions.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Clearing the cache in FF fixed it. (Sorry about not replying earlier, lot of homework last several days  )
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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I am not getting any notifications (the red points, you know!). Just got a few replies to my messages in the Lounge, but for none of which I received a notification. Is it really broken or it's just me?
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Just you.
Still happening?
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Chris Maunder
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Yes, it is.
[EDIT]*
You may want to address this issue by reviewing the method/SP which fetches the notifications and actual (unread/read it won't matter as I didn't receive any) replies to my posts (this is happening with all of them, not just the ones in the Lounge).
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Do these notifications (alongside the UserName on the top) have anything to do with the "Options" that I set while replying to a post, I suspect not since I have tried them all, but still not getting any notifications, where as "Email-me" option works fine.
*Just a stupid suggestion from a novice developer.
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
modified 13-Oct-14 4:34am.
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Yes, it is! Please H-E-L-P me!! 
Also, please see my previous reply in this thread.
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Still not getting any new notifications. Help me out please...
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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