Hi. I am on the standard edition. Ideally I would completely hide the username field during registration, and have it generate a name automatically. So for example if I enter my name as “Jesse”, then it automatically fills “jesse”, or “jesse1” if jesse is already taken. As far as I can tell that’s definitely not possible. What are my best alternatives? Can I put a note next to this field that gives people guidance to use their real name here? A big emphasis of our forum is using real names - and people tend to pick usernames that make this confusing / distracting (e.g. birth year, sports team, movie characters…) - I have seen this pretty consistently… Looking for any advice [image]

If your edition provides access to these settings, here’s what you could do: Activate these Site Settings: “Use name for username suggestions” “Show signup form username instructions” Then edit the contents of the Site Text js.user.username.instructions to be something like “Please base your username on your real name.” Mine currently looks like this: [image] …resulting in: [image] You might also want to be aware of the Site Setting “Prioritize username in UX” which is enabled by default: [image] And it is possible to completely hide the username field with some custom CSS (which would make the Site Text label irrelevant). But it feels like that could be confusing to the user. I’d test this before committing to it: .input-group.create-account__username { display: none; } ref: Making custom CSS changes on your site

The site text edits are going to help a lot - thank you. I already have prioritize username = off If I hid the input field with CSS - wouldn’t the form validation still require a value?

The value should still be passed. The thing with display:none is that it makes an item invisible, but doesn’t actually remove it from the page code. So it’s not a secure way to hide any critical secrets, because a savvy user could still view source and get at it. But it’s a handy way to do stuff like this.

I follow - I just mean, even though the element still exists (is merely hidden) - it will have a blank value right?

The idea of the setting “Use name for username suggestions” is that the username field will automatically populate with a suggested username (which can still be edited) once the name field is filled out. So in theory, if the field is hidden, this would just happen behind the scenes and our trick would work. BUT: I haven’t been using this setting myself, and in testing it (unhidden) just now, I can’t get the username field to show any suggestions. Not sure yet if I’m missing something, or if we’ve found a bug…

[图片] ToddZ: Not sure yet if I’m missing something, or if we’ve found a bug… I’ve opened a Support topic – hope to learn more: “Use name for username suggestions”: no effect on signup form?

While this doesn’t negate the suggested usernames issue, I’m afraid you won’t be able to implement hiding the field. That solution won’t work for you on our Starter plan, as you will not be able to edit your CSS.

Understood, thank you. If this did work, it might be one (of many) reasons I’d upgrade. Maybe I should just propose a new feature? “Hide username field in registration - system generates based on name”

[图片] Jesse_Starks: “Hide username field in registration - system generates based on name” Thought experiment: might there be a case for auto-suggesting a username and keeping it visible and/or editable? Say your third John Smith got blindly assigned johnsmith3, and would rather have been john_q_smith. Too late now. But… If the username field was visible and editable, he could just add the ‘q’. If the username field was visible and not editable, he could change his name input to John Q Smith and see the updated username result. Something else to note, if this were to go anywhere, is the site setting username_change_period which defaults to 3 days: [image]

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