# Prioritizing full name vs username in the UX
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-full-name-vs-username-in-the-ux/45415
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [Junho 8, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-full-name-vs-username-in-the-ux/45415 "2016-06-08T05:14:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [Junho 8, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-full-name-vs-username-in-the-ux/45415/1 "2016-06-08T05:14:36Z")
I just added a site setting that allows you to prioritize full names as opposed to usernames in the UI.
When usernames are prioritized cause the site setting `prioritize_username_in_ux` is enabled you will see:
In card:
On user page:
In post stream:
### If you change it so `prioritize_username_in_ux` is disabled you will see:
In card:
On user page:
In post stream:
I feel an @ symbol may be worth adding per:
This can be done safely via CSS, leaving it off for now.
Quotes inside the UX still pull in username eg:
> [@sam](#):
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> Eg: this quote is going to sam: as opposed to sam saffron:
We may look at making this switch to be fullname based when the setting is set.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [Junho 8, 2016, 5:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-full-name-vs-username-in-the-ux/45415/2 "2016-06-08T05:37:56Z")
Bug report: If full name is blankish, username is offset and not fully bold
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [Junho 8, 2016, 5:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-full-name-vs-username-in-the-ux/45415/3 "2016-06-08T05:38:25Z")
eh?
> [@Full name @mentions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-name-mentions/23896):
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> It would look more elegent in posts if @leo (for example) was presented as (or at least the user had the option to present it as) “Leo” or “Leo McArdle”.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [Junho 8, 2016, 5:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-full-name-vs-username-in-the-ux/45415/4 "2016-06-08T05:44:23Z")
corrected per
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/0e2d918b3b3807041126bc66d3e0d205d42c7820](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/0e2d918b3b3807041126bc66d3e0d205d42c7820)
Still abusable, but we might as well correct that server side by doing a trim on save that is unicode aware.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [Junho 8, 2016, 5:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-full-name-vs-username-in-the-ux/45415/5 "2016-06-08T05:45:55Z")
That is a can-of-worms to implement, same class as improving quotes. I may get to it, but not for this round.
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [Junho 9, 2016, 2:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-full-name-vs-username-in-the-ux/45415/6 "2016-06-09T14:06:12Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> I feel an @ symbol may be worth adding per:
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> [https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/0/d0c5b1049a0693259beec3cd229052dff5e07abd.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/0/d0c5b1049a0693259beec3cd229052dff5e07abd.png)
I believe the username should be shown with @ by the default. It’s a lot less confusing.
And the username should always be visible. Don’t make me think.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Junho 9, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-full-name-vs-username-in-the-ux/45415/7 "2016-06-09T20:27:37Z")
At symbol too noisy repeated all over the page. In the user card should suffice.
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### Author:  [@jerry0](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jerry0)
#### Post date: [Janeiro 3, 2020, 3:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-full-name-vs-username-in-the-ux/45415/8 "2020-01-03T03:06:33Z")
Isso está funcionando na maioria dos lugares, mas não nas notificações por e-mail.
Então, por exemplo, no cartão do usuário, parece correto.
Mas nas notificações por e-mail, o nome completo não é priorizado:
(também acho que apenas um dos dois nomes precisa ser hiperlinkado, o primeiro, eu acho)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [Janeiro 3, 2020, 4:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-full-name-vs-username-in-the-ux/45415/9 "2020-01-03T04:19:33Z")
@techAPJ, você pode investigar uma correção para os e-mails?
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [Fevereiro 20, 2020, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-full-name-vs-username-in-the-ux/45415/11 "2020-02-20T12:20:37Z")
Corrigido via:
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> UX: only the first attribute should be hyperlinked
> UX: add margin based on attri…bute position
Quando `prioritize_username_in_ux` está habilitado:
Quando `prioritize_username_in_ux` está desabilitado:
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [Fevereiro 20, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-full-name-vs-username-in-the-ux/45415/12 "2020-02-20T12:23:51Z")
Simplificamos ainda mais o estilo para usar o mesmo CSS para username e user-name. (note o peso da fonte em negrito para username versus o normal para user-name.)
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [Março 23, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-full-name-vs-username-in-the-ux/45415/13 "2020-03-23T16:32:32Z")
Empurrei outra correção aqui para a página /about:
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### Author:  [@mentalstring](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mentalstring)
#### Post date: [Setembro 13, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-full-name-vs-username-in-the-ux/45415/14 "2021-09-13T15:25:27Z")
Encontrei um local onde essa configuração não parece estar surtindo efeito: a lista de correspondências de nome de usuário nos resultados da pesquisa:
Geminiscp é o nome de usuário e `prioritize username in ux = true`.
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### Author:  [@debryc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/debryc)
#### Post date: [Dezembro 2, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-full-name-vs-username-in-the-ux/45415/15 "2022-12-02T19:18:09Z")
Acabamos de instalar a barra lateral e o chat experimentais. Os nomes completos podem ter prioridade na seção de chat pessoal também se desativarmos `prioritize_username_in_ux`?