Benefits/Disadvantages of enabling ID for slug driver for User model

Flarfan79

I am in the process of finalizing my forum. My understanding is that by enabling ID for the slug driver, the profile page URL of users show the user ID number instead of their username. I am trying to figure out which is best to choose. I would think for security, users may not like their usernames displayed and this may even increase hack attempts using the shown username. Any thoughts on which is best?

clarkwinkelmann

Flarfan79 it's purely cosmetic. There won't be any difference in performance or security as all the information is always available in the REST API anyway.

The only technical reasons I can see for using ID is if you have auto-generated usernames and use display names primarily, or if you use usernames but allow users to change them on a regular basis. By using ID the profile permalink wouldn't change when the user is renamed, at the cost of being a little less pretty.

Flarfan79

clarkwinkelmann thank you for this info.