Two-Token Username Swap

[garnetdagger]

Title
Two-Token Username Swap

Short, concise description of the idea
If you want to swap the usernames of two journals under your control, you should be able to do this simply and with two tokens, from a form that acknowledges this as a possibility.

Full description of the ideaYou can, currently, swap the usernames of two journals under your control

Comments

[danceinacircle]

I love the idea of making it simpler, but the backend process is way more complicated than what we users have to go through, so I don't know if it can be simplified, haha.

I think if devs were going to undertake a project to simplify this process, why not take it one step further and make it a special one-token procedure that then costs $45?

[lady_angelina]

I think the piece here is that most users don't understand why this sort of thing should cost more than simply renaming two journals separately. ;) Although, eliminating the necessity for the third, throwaway journal would be nice (especially since desired journal usernames are kind of at a premium now). If the single "swap two usernames" token were offered at that price, there had better be a detailed explanation behind it, or the users may feel gypped.

[azurelunatic]

So use a reserved system name in the backend and purge it immediately after the rename process is complete, to free it up for the next time it's needed?

One might be forced to do renames asynchronously (your rename job has been queued. You will be notified in email and your inbox when it is complete.) in this case.

[mlady_rebecca]

The placeholder idea sounds like it would be very useful. That would eliminate a lot of dummy accounts being created.

[azurelunatic]

Works for me!

Though Fu is hammering away at DW's rename process, and I put two-username-swap in the spec for that, and action on that reminded me to put that in here, so it's a remote possibility that when that's done, it may be sufficiently compatible to be taken up here too.