After clicking on "Your Houzz", go to "Edit Profile" and you can change your user name there.

Thanks - hope it works.

I'll try a modification of my original name and see what happens.

If you haven't, try signing in on the GW URL instead of houzz with your old name.

https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/6031772/how-do-i-get-my-user-name-back#n=3

I think it might have worked.

Olychick - thank you so very much. I was panicked!

But when I go to the cooking forum, I'm HU-long number. Now what should I do? I came back here and I'm not seagrass_gw anymore :o(

Ooop it's messed up here again too. I hope you get it fixed Seagrass!

You should be able to change your name under My Profile. Keep trying!

Check the url for the cooking forum and make sure you're using GW and not Houzz...

If you're accessing the sites via bookmarks, maybe try resetting those to the two links I've posted to make sure they are set at GW and not houzz

https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/cooking

Just fyi I had a similar issue and I can only sign in and use my history when I do so with the houzz address. Occasionally I click on notifications and it brings up the gardenweb address and I get that blocked thing about logging in or signing up and then if I try to do that, I get that error message.

For whatever reason only houzz works for me, If I am paying attention and it reverts to gardenweb--- I can change it to houzz and I am good. If I am not paying attention then it is deja vu all over again.

Again, for what I pay, I guess I can't complain (too much).

The bookmarks I have for CF & KT are both GW urls. When I'm greeted or post with the HU-long number name, I go to Edit Profile and Settings which show seagrass_gw and my original e-mail address. It's puzzling. I don't know how to fix it.

Your allowed to change your user name twice a year.

nicole - I haven't been able to successfully revert back to my original name, and I signed up with Houzz using a different email address and password. They assigned my HU-long number username. But when I go to "Edit profile and settings" my original user name seagrass_gw and my original e-mail address is what is there...

seagrass....are you signing in differently each time? Seagrass "IS" displayed as your user name above.....please track the differences......

nicole - that's weird...I've never repeatedly signed in I've always been able to post before this happened, and I do let my laptop remember my passwords so I guess it happens automatically. But when I signed up with a different email and password Houzz assigned me the HU-long number address. Maybe I should delete my history again??? IDK what to do. Obviously I'm computer illiterate because I didn't know I would be deleting everything I lost. I got an email from PayPal telling me they received a payment request from a device they didn't recognize and to contact them if it wasn't mine.

Oh, 2020.

When I had a similar problem I found if I used the "don't remember password etc." and asked for a reset a new password solved the problem. Why it did not say anything about that ???? I had recently purchased a computer which would not accept the password. I had to use the don't remember to reset the password for about three months.

I went thru this months ago...it wouldn't do anything that was suggested here....After I changed my actual name on my google account did it go back to R and not my name on here

When you go to your profile info, does it show Seagrass in both the Account info and Profile info? You should be able to edit the Profile info in the HU account to show some form of Seagrass, which will be the name we see when you post.

I hover my cursor over your user name, then hit the right button, then click on "inspect". You shouldn't show up so different., since your the same person seagrass=Hu-45085....

The program views you differently....hence the Id variance. Ont_Gal has suggested that Google's view of your ID is seen "here". That may be true of other cookies it picks up. Do you use the seagrass ID anywhere else?

when houzz took over it was a mess trying to get back here. I have been katlan for years but had to re-register with houzz. I used rknala as a username and I am unable to change it back to katlan. This is what my profile page looks like

Katlan your name shows up Katlan on your post.

It does?! Great. I thought someone said one time it showed as rknala. Thank you Dolly!

@katlan,

Your username is rknala. It's the last portion of the url that points to your profile. (that can only be changed twice per year)

Your display name is katlan. It's what is displayed when you post. (you can change it as often as you want)

"when I click on edit to change rknala to katlan it says that user name is already taken"

Yes, it is. Unless it's a long lost profile of yours?
https://www.gardenweb.com/user/katlan

seagrass, I did the same and couldn't get logged back in using the gardenweb/kitchen table bookmark I had saved. It took 3 days but I finally clicked on a different topic on someone's post and was able to log in on that topic. But, when I came back today I wasn't logged in here but I was on the other topic. Crazy, I tell ya!

I ran into this problem a few years back. Trying to remember what I did. I think I went to the Computer Forum and they told me.

I remember I had to erase all cookies. Run a scan by using CCleaner and tell it to remove cookies. Then type in the address bar gardenweb.com.

Log in using your old name/password.

I think that's what they told me to do on Computer Forum. I remember having to erase all cookies to Houzz and log in to Gardenweb.com. Don't log into Houzz.

Jane

Olychick - when I go to my profile my user name shows as "seagrass_gw". I don't know how to view my account info.

Try signing n as seagrass2

Thank you Richard!!

Welcome (again) ...

... "katlan"!

(Hope you succeed in sticking around, this time).

ole joyful

I have had numerous problems after clearing my history too. I just can't be who I used to be and have only limited function.