- Compatible XF 2.x versions
- 2.3
- Updates duration
- Perm
- Visible branding
- No
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Blatchy Alias
One account. Many voices. Zero exposure.
What it does
Your members want to post under different names for different topics. A political thread under one handle, a professional thread under another, maybe a throwaway for a sensitive question. Today they solve this by making second accounts — which means multiple registrations, multiple email addresses, multiple logins, and a moderation headache for you.
Blatchy Alias lets a single account operate multiple handles. Each alias has its own username and its own avatar. Posts made under an alias display as that alias to the public, but under the hood every post, reaction, and conversation is still owned by the master account. One inbox. One alert stream. One permission set. One ban hammer.
How it works
Members with permission see a dedicated alias switcher in the navbar — a quick-access menu where they pick which persona is currently active. Whatever they post next goes out under that alias. Switching personas is a single click, no logout required.
On the admin side, you control:
Every alias has an audit trail. As an admin you always see the master account behind any alias post — the visibility is one-way: the public sees personas, staff sees people.
Features
Why not just let people make second accounts?
Because duplicate accounts break everything else:
Alias solves all of these at the identity layer: the public sees as many personas as the user wants, but everything that matters to you — permissions, moderation, deliverability, accountability — runs off a single real account.
Requirements
Blatchy Alias
One account. Many voices. Zero exposure.
What it does
Your members want to post under different names for different topics. A political thread under one handle, a professional thread under another, maybe a throwaway for a sensitive question. Today they solve this by making second accounts — which means multiple registrations, multiple email addresses, multiple logins, and a moderation headache for you.
Blatchy Alias lets a single account operate multiple handles. Each alias has its own username and its own avatar. Posts made under an alias display as that alias to the public, but under the hood every post, reaction, and conversation is still owned by the master account. One inbox. One alert stream. One permission set. One ban hammer.
How it works
Members with permission see a dedicated alias switcher in the navbar — a quick-access menu where they pick which persona is currently active. Whatever they post next goes out under that alias. Switching personas is a single click, no logout required.
On the admin side, you control:
- Who can create aliases (per-usergroup permission)
- How many aliases each user can have
Every alias has an audit trail. As an admin you always see the master account behind any alias post — the visibility is one-way: the public sees personas, staff sees people.
Features
- Per-alias username and avatar. Each persona is a full identity on the public side.
- Navbar alias switcher. One-click persona change with a custom icon menu, sized to fit alongside the stock navbar.
- Full admin audit trail. Staff can always see which master account owns any alias post.
- No duplicate-account bloat. One xf_user row per human, regardless of how many personas they run.
- Single inbox. Conversations, alerts, and notifications all route to the master account — no missed messages because they went to the wrong persona.
- Permission-gated. You decide per-usergroup who can create aliases, and how many.
- Privacy-first. Alias data is only visible to the user themselves and to staff with the view IPs admin permission — matching XenForo's own privacy model for IP addresses.
Why not just let people make second accounts?
Because duplicate accounts break everything else:
- Notifications go to whichever account was active — half your replies never reach the right person
- Permissions diverge — one account earns a badge, the other doesn't
- Moderation requires cross-referencing
Alias solves all of these at the identity layer: the public sees as many personas as the user wants, but everything that matters to you — permissions, moderation, deliverability, accountability — runs off a single real account.
Requirements
- XenForo 2.3.0 or later
- PHP 8.0 or later
