Client: Is it possible to rename a team?
The original name is confusing. Is there a way to rename? or does one need to blow away the team and start again.
kendoori
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IIRC, there is no way to rename teams ATM. When I created a team today, I was shown that team names cannot be changed.
arunsathiya
on 23 Aug 2018
That's a bit CRUDdy. I hope it's not the team name being used as ID somewhere.
kimslawson
on 30 Aug 2018
@kimslawson Keybase namespace is locked down, so if you get a name, you keep it forever or destroy it forever. Once a name is destroyed, not even the original owner can get it back...
It's to prevent what we see a lot with domain vultures. They wait for a lapse in renewal, or in Keybase's case maybe accidental deletion, then snatch up the name and try to trick people into trusting them as the original owner.
The team name is being used as a global ID.
However, subteams are a different story and can be destroyed and recreated as much as you want as long as you have admin priveleges of the global team.
junderw
on 30 Aug 2018
What is to prevent someone from just claiming thousands of names just to lock them up?
mmance
on 7 Sep 2018
What is to prevent someone from just claiming thousands of names just to lock them up?
Nothing.
junderw
on 7 Sep 2018
Couldn't there at least be changeable team nicknames?
JEM-Mosig
on 23 May 2019
Same problem.
junderw
on 23 May 2019
I created a discussion on Kialo to make the arguments more transparent: https://www.kialo.com/should-keybase-team-names-be-locked-29494
JEM-Mosig
on 15 Jun 2019
Kialo is broken.
Copy paste here.
junderw
on 15 Jun 2019
Long time lurker here who already twice ran into this issue.
@junderw What's broken about the Kialo discussion? Why not at least allow changeable display names? Like Trello or Kialo? @JEM-Mosig captured my main issues very nicely.
longtimelurker
on 24 Jun 2019
I would love to change my team name (at least update a display name). It is no longer accurate, but people are already there. Thanks.
kristenward
on 20 Aug 2019
Hi @kristenward. Check out @JEM-Mosig Kialo discussion, all the reasons for enabling this are in there, but it seems the devs don't have reasons that aren't entirely transparent why this shouldn't be done. @junderw if you don't want to use Kialo, fine, but look at the reasoning there and add your reasons here, we'll update the Kialo as to at least have users understand why this isn't possible. cheers
longtimelurker
on 21 Aug 2019
@junderw if you want I can also paste the five most important claims here, but it's going to get messy in the commenting format. At the very least it would be nice to see how you vote the claims, to understand your reasoning. Thank you.
longtimelurker
on 21 Aug 2019
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@kimslawson Keybase namespace is locked down, so if you get a name, you keep it forever or destroy it forever. Once a name is destroyed, not even the original owner can get it back...
It's to prevent what we see a lot with domain vultures. They wait for a lapse in renewal, or in Keybase's case maybe accidental deletion, then snatch up the name and try to trick people into trusting them as the original owner.
The team name is being used as a global ID.
However, subteams are a different story and can be destroyed and recreated as much as you want as long as you have admin priveleges of the global team.