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Restore the ability to differentiate deleted users

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A long time ago, when someone deleted their account it would then be renamed to something like "Deleted User 6c012ab9#1877", and you would have the ability to use said account in the search bar to look for messages, etc.

Now what happens is, every deleted account is just displayed as "Deleted User#0000" and if you have a situation where multiple deleted users chatted in a server at the same time, it's possible for their messages to become merged with one another, making it even more of a hassle to figure out who was a different person and who wasn't.

I said displayed because the old classification of deleted users still exists, and there's specific instances where you can see it, like for example if someone is a group owner or on a banlist and they deleted their account, they will appear as the old variant on the group member list and on the banlist.

I'm asking for this because it totally ruins the readability of old chat history on a server and I don't see why this change was even made.

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  • Costpap
    Adding this would make for a way to individually track down and match Deleted Users with the person who used them, which would be bad imo. Maybe separating their messages while still keeping the Deleted User#0000 format would be better, but I wouldn't want to see the hashes be brought back.
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  • Chloe
    from what I've seen self deleted accounts actually only show the users username. The deleted username I believe only applies to banned users
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