Profile

The Profile tab of your settings, at auth.sourceorigin.dev/settings/profile, holds what apps you sign in to with Origin Auth see of you: your handle, your display name and your picture.

Before you start

You need to be signed in. Changing your handle needs a passkey confirmation; the display name and picture don’t.

Your handle

Your handle, such as @alice, is your account’s public name. You sign in with it, and apps that read your profile receive it as your username. It isn’t secret: anyone can check whether an account has a given handle, for example on the sign-in page.

Handle rules

A handle is 3 to 32 characters long: lowercase letters, numbers, and single hyphens between them.

A handle can’t be taken if another account has it or had it, or if it looks too much like one that does, such as rnary beside mary. Names SourceOrigin uses itself, such as auth, www or sourceorigin, are reserved. The page says which handle blocks the one you chose.

Change your handle

1. Select Change beside Handle.
2. Type the new handle in Change your handle.
3. Select Change handle, and confirm with your passkey if your browser asks.

Your old handle stops working right away: you sign in with the new one, and links to the old one stop finding you. Apps see the new handle the next time they refresh your profile. The old handle stays reserved for you, so nobody else can take it, and you can take it back later.

You can change your handle once every 30 days, counting from when you created your account too. Until then, its Change button is disabled, and the page says when you can change it again.

Change your display name

Your display name is the name apps show for you. It can be up to 80 characters, and doesn’t need to be unique.

1. Select Change beside Display name.
2. Type the new name under Display name, then select Save name.

Apps see it the next time they refresh your profile.

Choose a profile picture

Apps show your picture beside your name, or your initials while you have none.

1. Select Add a picture beside Picture, or Change if you have one.
2. Under Picture, choose a PNG, JPEG or GIF of up to 10 MB.
3. Choose the square apps show: drag the picture, or use the arrow keys, to move it, and use Zoom to zoom in.
4. Select Upload picture.

Origin Auth keeps only the image, cropped to a square: nothing else in the file, such as where a photo was taken. Apps show the new picture once they refresh your profile.

To remove it, select Remove beside Picture, then Remove picture. Apps show your initials instead.

Troubleshooting

• “Your handle changed less than 30 days ago.” Wait until the date the message gives.
• “This handle looks too much like @…” or “This handle belonged to another account.” Choose another handle. See handle rules.
• The picture is refused. Use a PNG, JPEG or GIF of at most 10 MB.