# Provide option to choose showing full names in chat

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/provide-option-to-choose-showing-full-names-in-chat/269487>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** chat, completed\
**Created:** [June 24, 2023, 3:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/provide-option-to-choose-showing-full-names-in-chat/269487 "2023-06-24T03:52:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![davidb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/davidb/32/554671_2.png) [@davidb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidb)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 6:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/provide-option-to-choose-showing-full-names-in-chat/269487/14 "2024-09-17T06:53:24Z")

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This feature has now been added:

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/28843>
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> This change adds full names to direct message channel titles when the following …conditions are met:
> 
> \- SiteSetting.enable\_names = true
> \- SiteSetting.display\_name\_on\_posts = true
> \- SiteSetting.prioritize\_username\_in\_ux = false
> 
> If a user's full name is blank, it will fallback to their username in both 1-1 channels and Group DM channels.
> 
> \### How it looks
> 
> Example where we fallback to username for the user \`@wilbur\` due to missing full name:
> 
> \<img width="396" alt="Screenshot 2024-09-16 at 5 01 30 PM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f0d27a21-d96f-4f8a-bec5-7aa858f6d8b7"\>

Note that for users that don’t have a name on their profile, it will revert to the username for those individual users.

To get this working, it requires the same settings outlined here:

> [@Lilly](#):
>
> in admin - settings, you need to have `enable_names` and `display_name_on_posts` enabled (checked) and then make sure `prioritize_username_in_ux` is disabled (unchecked).

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