The discussion revolves around the issue of full names not appearing next to usernames on posts in a self-hosted Discourse instance, despite the enable names setting being enabled. fefrei initially struggled to resolve the issue, even after disabling plugins and verifying settings. The problem was ultimately traced to the display name on posts site setting, which was overlooked during troubleshooting fefrei. pfaffman humorously noted the irony, while SouperC admitted to making the same mistake. pfaffman reflected on the challenges new admins face, especially with non-English interfaces, and suggested improving the settings search to include translated descriptions. fefrei clarified that the search works with translations but the user was searching for terms not aligned with the actual setting name or its localized version. dan-barbulescu suggested adding a warning near the settings to prevent similar confusion.
In one of my self-hosted instances, which is up-to-date with the beta branch, full names aren’t shown next to the username above a post, just the username and title. The full name does appear on the user card.
The username doesn’t match the full name.
enable names is ticked.
This happens with all site customizations disabled.
prioritize username in ux is enabled, disabling it has no effect on this.
Hilarious! And you’re an experience Discourse person! Obviously this was a likely bug, and it’s tons easier to check the source than to remember to search the settings anyway.
I actually did search the settings, but didn’t dig up the correct one. Searching for name gave one gazillion results, and searching for full name didn’t find this – because the name of the setting doesn’t include full, and my instance is set to German
I think a lot about how new Discourse admins get started. You’re a “regular” according to your trust level, and I recognize you as someone who reliably posts helpful responses. When you can’t figure out something that should be pretty easy to figure out, I can just imagine how overwhelming it must be for someone new.
And your command of English is such that my only hint that it’s not your first language is your name. What must it be like for people who don’t know what words to search for? And how can we help them?
Changing the settings names is infeasible, but I wonder if the settings search could be modified to search the translated descriptions.
It is actually searching for the translated name! The problem is that I was searching for full name, which is neither part of the setting name (because it only says name) nor of the translated description (where it is obfuscatedtranslated to vollen Namen).
I might only be running into this because English isn’t my first language but I’m using it enough to just expect the search to react to English terms, just as the rest of the internet does
