# Guidance on implementing display name precedence

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/guidance-on-implementing-display-name-precedence/390420
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [December 4, 2025, 2:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/guidance-on-implementing-display-name-precedence/390420 "2025-12-04T14:18:59Z")
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### Author: ![manut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/manut/32/485119_2.png) [@manut](https://meta.discourse.org/u/manut)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 2:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/guidance-on-implementing-display-name-precedence/390420/1 "2025-12-04T14:18:59Z")

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I’m digging a bit for the best approach [to implementing this pr-welcome feature](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-user-names-in-participants-list/390176/12) (I first thought “okay, let’s change this in the one front file where it will solve this proposition”), and stumbled upon the `BasicUserSerializer` (“app/serializers/basic\_user\_serializer.rb”).

So what about adding a `display_name` method in the `User` model, which would return the right value according to the site settings, and use this in all the serializers returning users (or parts), then in all the front components ?

This is a bigger change for sure and _may_ have an impact on performances but seems to be a good start to easily unify the value without performing a check in every ember file.

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