The default group listing page in Discourse has changed from displaying the Name field to the Full Name field after a version update. JoelZaslofsky would like to swap this back to the Name field, as the Full Name can be lengthy and not ideal for their community.
JoelZaslofsky suggests a possible admin setting to toggle between Name and Full Name. However, simply changing the Full Name to match the Name is not a suitable solution, as it would remove the short description on the group detail page.
Others, like Hifihedgehog, are experiencing the opposite issue, with their forum defaulting to the Name instead of the Full Name. A solution to toggle between the two fields would be beneficial. MarcP has linked to another topic discussing the same issue.
If it’s not possible to do a CSS hack or another admin side edit to show the Name instead of the Full Name, perhaps there could be a future admin setting at https://yourforum.com/admin/site_settings/category/groups to toggle between displaying the Name or Full Name value. It might look like this:
I thought about that myself before creating the topic. It would work OK for the group listing page, but not so well for the group detail page.
Because we have so many groups and plan to add even more, our community appreciates a short description of a group so they don’t have to read the full description when they’re considering joining.
For example, if I made our Arts & Crafts group keep the same Name value and change the Full Name value to “ArtsAndCrafts” as well, you’d miss the current “Artist and Crafters of All Mediums, Forms, and Disciplines” short description.
