Today we have applied an update that no longer requires someone to pick a unique display name. The Spruz platform uses a global member system, so that when someone joins any website in our network they can easily join another website on the platform without having to register all over again. This has its advantages and some disadvantages such as our requirement to having picking a unique name that was not already in use on the platform by someone else.
So just like in real life where there is more then one John Smith in the world, so is the case on the Spruz Platform from this day forward. I am sure many of you will welcome this change as it has been, a bit of a problem for people that feel they should be able to select a name that was already taken.
We are hoping in the future to have a feature where display names can be unique to just the website a member is on. But without major changes and a good chance of breaking a few things, this feature is several months out.
This should improve the number of registrations since it reduces a friction point in the registration process.
