Is there a way to allow a user to choose what gets displayed when they post in the forum? We would like our users to be able to choose between using either the Username or Name field. We’ve had some questions around privacy since it defaults to their username. Thanks!
Users do not specifically determine what is shown, this will be determined by your site settings in different places.
User cards & profiles
The three elements to juggle are:
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Full name
This is the ‘real name’ and you can make it required or not. If you are worried about privacy, then you might not ask for it. Alternatively, you could collect it but hide it by unchecking theenable namesoption -
Username
This is required for Discourse to operate -
Priority
You can de-emphasise names by prioritising usernames, or you can turn this off to focus on the real name
Another useful option is to disable user cards and profiles for anonymous users. In combination with the security below, only logged-in users will see more personal data
Posts
If the data exists and is available, you can enable this setting for posts (or not enable it for privacy)
One thing to bear in mind, is that when the username and the real name are the ‘same’ (ignoring spaces), the second element will be hidden to avoid duplication, so for example:
My username robmc is different from my full name
… while my colleague’s matches
Hi Robert,
If I want to remove the username from showing up and only display the Name field would I deselect “prioritize username in the UX”?
Thanks
Sean
I need to go and check whether this is possible. Discourse uses usernames as a default for many things, including traffic referral, mentions, and so on, so hiding this entirely does not seem entirely possible, or sensible.
Can I ask what you mean by this statement, as I’ve been confused
Surely a username is MORE private than a real name? Can you please explain the use-case?
Les noms d’utilisateur ne sont plus privés que si l’utilisateur a choisi un nom d’utilisateur privé dès le départ. Il n’existe aucun moyen de corriger cela si l’utilisateur décide de préférer un nom d’utilisateur qui ne révèle rien de privé à son sujet / qui ne l’identifie pas publiquement (ce n’est pas vraiment une fonctionnalité prise en charge pour modifier les noms d’utilisateur), contrairement au champ de nom modifiable. Parfois, les utilisateurs n’ont même pas un contrôle direct sur leur nom d’utilisateur s’il a été rempli via SSO. Je pense que vous voulez dire que les noms d’utilisateur sont plus privés pour les utilisateurs qui ont pu faire ce choix au départ et qui n’ont aucune raison de changer d’avis plus tard – cela semble hostile aux utilisateurs, en particulier aux groupes vulnérables.
Je remettrais en question ce choix de conception, veuillez en faire un paramètre du site. (voir mes commentaires dans Feature request: make the "deduplication" of name vs. user name a site setting)