Three of us if you count Decordummie.

There are two of me, but that's because I have a dual identity, sort of like Batman or Superman.

At least Batman and Superman have something in common. The 'imposter' has a favourite decorating style which is the exact opposite of mine (& we live in different countries).

LOL! Me too, they added the" _gw" for me because there was another schoolhouse.

I think I have about four names at GW created over the years when signing n became a problem. There is dedtired_1, 2 and 3 plus one more GW name as well as my former Houzz ID. Fortunately, I have been able to return to my original name (although I do think about changing it). Crazy.

I have two names here since I was already mudhouse here, and then they imported me as mudhouse_gw. Eventually I think they can merge those for me if I email for help. Bigger fish to fry, right now.

decordummy_gw, maybe it will be handy. If anyone ever gets cross with you for posting something, maybe you can confuse the issue by blinking innocently and claiming it was the *other * guy. :-)

I think it is more circular than that. Suppose you never had a Houzz account. When they converted GW to Houzz, you were automatically converted to Houzz. So when you tried to confirm your GW account, it said there was already a member by that name, and proposed to call you "username_gw". Even those who had prior and separate Houzz accounts were running into the issue.

I messed up somehow trying to confirm my GW account, but managed to get in with my Houzz user name, which shows in my private profile. So I did what was suggested and put my old GW name in the public profile.

Schoolhouse, it's like we're related & have the same maiden name, _gw.