Usernames are no longer bold on the /about page

Richie · December 18, 2025, 9:30pm

Discourse 2025.12.0-latest (7955a472bc)

Usernames are no longer bold on the /about page:

They are still correctly bold elsewhere, eg. On a badge details page:

Moin · December 18, 2025, 9:44pm

This seems to be a side effect of UX: show the user status next to the username in the group's view by ZogStriP · Pull Request #36482 · discourse/discourse · GitHub, which removed the font-weight: bold within .name-line

I also noticed that recently the way name and username are shown on groups and badge pages changed. They used to be in different lines, but now they are in one. I didn’t check, maybe that is also because of this change.

This is a screenshot of /badges/3/regular today

and this is how it looked in April

philh · December 18, 2025, 9:50pm

same using these
2025.12.0-latest (d1b489afd2)
2025.12.0-latest (0cc96ccc9f)
2025.12.0-latest (63257772c4)

zogstrip · December 19, 2025, 10:37am

Sorry about that. While fixing the issue, I noticed we were using the AboutPageUser component which was a duplicate of the UserInfo component, so I deleted the former.

github.com/discourse/discourse

FIX: Restore bold usernames on the about page

main ← ux-restore-bold-username-in-about-page

merged 01:54PM - 19 Dec 25 UTC

ZogStriP

+10 -44

The AboutPageUser component introduced in PR #36482 broke username styling by sw…apping the content between `.username` and `.name` spans based on the `prioritizeNameInUx` setting. This caused usernames to lose their bold styling since CSS targets elements by class name, not content. This fix removes the custom AboutPageUser component and reuses the existing UserInfo component instead. UserInfo handles name priority correctly by using a `--name-first` CSS modifier class to change visual order via flexbox, while keeping the username content in the `.username` span where the bold styling is applied. The page object for system specs is updated to detect which display mode is active by checking for the `--name-first` class, then mapping the span contents accordingly. Ref - https://meta.discourse.org/t/391706 **BEFORE** <img width="1510" height="1293" alt="2025-12-19 @ 11 36 13" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/56e1460e-30e9-41a4-92f7-c49bf9c3b9da" /> **AFTER** <img width="1510" height="1293" alt="2025-12-19 @ 11 36 06" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c92d165d-edaa-47e1-97fb-c6518ed3bbfe" />

Richie · December 19, 2025, 11:12am

Fantastic, thanks @zogstrip

zogstrip · December 20, 2025, 7:00am

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