This would enable me to address someone by his/hear name (‘Robert’ in my case) instead of the username. And it would allow my to show some more information with my name (in my case I use a country flag to show where I’m from and what my maiden language is: ‘Robert ’).
Would you please consider enabling this option/feature in the forum settings?
Home Assistant has a lot of different type of users. A subset of these users use Home Assistant because they care about their privacy. They would not participate in a community if it shows real names.
Even if we not make real names mandatory, if enough people do it it might become a social norms and would scare people away.
So I think that given the community that we are, we should not do this. This won’t stop you from engaging with other people and exchanging names, I just don’t think that it’s a good idea to make the default.
Well, any user already is able to add a name to his/her profile. You can currently only see it in the profile pop up and full profile page. I am only asking for displaying it besides posts.
I believe that people who value their privacy (me included) do not enter any identifiable info already.
I hope you reconsider, in favor of a more engaging community
Go to emojipedia (link above), copy any emotion you see there (NOT the image, but the embedded emoticon in the text) and paste that somewhere into your profile. Easy enough?
As @metbril says, you would just not fill in the box. The box is already there and is already optional, this suggestion is just that if people do fill it in, it will show on the posts under/over their forum username.
I don’t know, I’ve played video games my whole life, I’m used to alias’s by now. If it were to pass, I’d just put my username in my name slot, which I’ve already done.
Ok. I thought he was just expressing his opinion. Too bad this option will not be available, I can live with that, but will need some extra clicks (hover does not work on iPad) to see someone’s name.
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