# Master account/blog vs secondary blog changability

**URL:** <https://discuss.write.as/t/master-account-blog-vs-secondary-blog-changability/1095>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Tags:** writefreely, writeas\
**Created:** [February 6, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/master-account-blog-vs-secondary-blog-changability/1095 "2020-02-06T15:15:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![wakest](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/wakest/32/436_2.png) [@wakest](https://discuss.write.as/u/wakest)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/master-account-blog-vs-secondary-blog-changability/1095/1 "2020-02-06T15:15:56Z")

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From [issue #257](https://writefreely.org/issues/257):

> I just discovered you can not change the handle of a “secondary” blog on WriteFreely.
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> There should be some warning when setting up a secondary blog that the handle is set and there is no going back, because if you made a blog first and could change it you have now learned that blog handles are changeable and you would expect it to work a second time.

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**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/master-account-blog-vs-secondary-blog-changability/1095/2 "2020-02-06T15:17:25Z")

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I think the best way to solve this, design-wise, will be simply letting people change the handle of these blogs. Since that’s a new bit of functionality, I’ve moved this here.

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**Author:** ![wakest](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/wakest/32/436_2.png) [@wakest](https://discuss.write.as/u/wakest)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/master-account-blog-vs-secondary-blog-changability/1095/3 "2020-02-06T20:00:03Z")

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Glad to hear you are down to just have all names changeable.

I guess this gets us back to my original “bug” I posted which is, if you change your name currently you loose all follower/connections in federation.

I think its a bit weird to call it a feature request. I think how it is currently set up could be accurately described as a bug because it does not function how one would expect.

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**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/master-account-blog-vs-secondary-blog-changability/1095/4 "2020-02-06T21:50:18Z")

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For that [original issue](https://discuss.write.as/t/warn-user-about-changing-username-on-federated-instances/1008), the classification comes down to scope.

If it’s a bug, it’s a bug within the entire ActivityPub ecosystem, and less in WriteFreely itself. That’s why I’ve classified it more as a feature request – which in this case is synonymous with “new development needed” – because WriteFreely is doing all that it can within the current limitations of other AP platforms.

I’d note that this is unlike the [post slug issue](https://writefreely.org/issues/237) you reported, which we _can_ do something about from our end.