… well, not quite. It appears that if the user ID is the same as the full name (minus the capitalization and spaces), only the user name displays.
In other words, one would see only michaeldowney next to my avatar image instead of “michaeldowney Michael Downey”. While this is indeed redundant, it makes one wonder why that person “doesn’t have a name”.
It’s also inconsistent with the user card and user profile page.
The Seasteading Institutue is moving our forums to Discourse (go-live scheduled for 08-March-2015) and I’ve noticed the same thing. My user name is kensims and my full name is Ken Sims, and so the latter doesn’t show.
Consider this another “vote” to always show the full name (assuming that it is thusly configured), even if the full name is essentially the same as the user name.
Well Ms. Kensi, at least the Real Full Name shows up in the user leaderboard. And the user profiles. And the user cards. Just not on the posts, where most people look.
Here are some more quizzes for those who still don’t believe this is a problem:
placed in header template? (do I need to bind it to onLoad()?) It looks safe for me, but my forum is in production, and I’m little affraid of blowing it out.
Somewhat related to this topic. I just noticed that with enable names enabled:
username= Jan_de_Bont, name= Jan de Bont shows the name with the post although it is redundant. Probably even more so than if username = jandebont with name= Jan de Bont.
What is the logic/code for deciding to show the name or not with enable names enabled?
I’m going to try this, but it’s really lame because I just went to “fix” someone’s name because it was only showing johndoe - only to find I was wasting my time because their name was set to John Doe as requested.
As I’ve said before, I think we need an additional configuration option.
Since the option to show the full name really means “show the full name only if the software thinks it should be shown”, we need an additional “Yes, I really mean always show the full name” option.