Full name is a required field of a user’s profile.
Show the user’s full name on their profile, user card, and emails. Disable to hide full name everywhere.
Show a user’s full name on their posts in addition to their @username.
And this disabled:
Show username first on user page, user card and posts (when disabled name is shown first)
On posts, the About page, user bios, user cards: this is respected.
In the notification/user menu, badges listings, user directory, and in user profiles “most liked” and other like sections, the username is given priority.
Maybe it’s too far related from this topic, but is there any appetite to revisit the “don’t show the user’s full name if it’s the same characters as the username” design choice?
I’ve reported similar issues (more serious) with regard to the inconsistent display of the Group Full Name and groupname over the years, I wonder if this can be looked at?