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***Bigblah*** · Local time: Jul 8, 2006, 01:26 PM

Alrighty, first off I'm going to credit this idea to AcerBandit, who came up with it in this thread.

Two additional fields have been added to your profile. Go to your User CP, choose "Edit Profile", and you'll see them at the bottom:

UPDATE: The name display options have been moved to Edit Options, under Thread Display Options. To activate the feature, you have to go to both your profile and option pages, and press 'save'.

The display name will override your default username on the postbit. You will see a white asterisk that indicates a custom name, plus you can still see the original username by opening the menu, like this:

Right now there is no way to restrict duplicate custom display names, so it's possible you'll end up with 20 DATAGONKS running around. For people who are distressed by such delinquency, the other profile field setting comes to the rescue! Just set custom name displays to "no", and you'll see regular usernames as usual.

UPDATE

You have now four options to choose from to display the custom usernames! Take a look in your profile options:

(Ignore the field below it, hrhr)

Please report any bugs/comments/suggestions in this thread.

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***Bigblah*** · Local time: Jul 8, 2006, 01:31 PM

The idea is to let people decide for themselves, but if there is enough abuse going on, I could implement an admin-controlled variable. Let's see how it goes.

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***Bigblah*** · Local time: Jul 8, 2006, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by Hito

Is there any way to personalize this and give other users aliases, a la DeadAIM?

That would require a change to the database. I'd rather not code something like that just yet.

Miles: it's working fine for me here. Force refresh?

Edit: Oh, I get the problem. Fixing right now.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

***Bigblah*** · Local time: Jul 8, 2006, 01:47 PM

Alright, I've fixed it so that turning custom display names off actually works.

Yay!

Skills: Currently it only shows up on the postbit. Won't be too hard to integrate it elsewhere, though.

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***Bigblah*** · Local time: Jul 8, 2006, 01:50 PM

Originally Posted by Capo

Is there someway to make it so the display names don't fuck up the "User Box", a la Skills, currently?

I changed it to 14 characters instead of 15. Now Skills just has to update his profile field.

I was speaking idiomatically.

***Bigblah*** · Local time: Jul 8, 2006, 02:14 PM

Originally Posted by galen

EDIT: Feature need to be added to the Lite Set, apparently :/

Alright, I'll work on that.

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***Bigblah*** · Local time: Jul 8, 2006, 02:42 PM

Yes, I'm so proud of myself for being so considerate.

Anyway, the feature has been implemented in the Lite Set.

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***Bigblah*** · Local time: Jul 8, 2006, 03:08 PM

How do you people feel about removing the asterisk and instead making the custom display names appear in white?

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***Bigblah*** · Local time: Jul 8, 2006, 03:25 PM

Try going to your profile and save the settings once?

Edit: Original usernames now show up as tooltips on avatars too, just to circumvent empty display names

Jam it back in, in the dark.

***Bigblah*** · Local time: Jul 8, 2006, 04:06 PM

Okay people, help me test whether the normal/asterisk/blink/marquee options are working properly now!

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***Bigblah*** · Local time: Jul 8, 2006, 04:31 PM

UPDATE

You have now four options to choose from to display the custom usernames! Take a look in your profile options:

(Ignore the field below it, hrhr)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

***Bigblah*** · Local time: Jul 8, 2006, 05:17 PM

It only affects your display, anyhow.

Also, Enable Display Names and Display Name Format have been moved to Thread Display Options rather than profile settings.

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***Bigblah*** · Local time: Jul 8, 2006, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by Capo

I think the pictures and .gifs in the username space is a bit overkill. It looks ridiculous.

Thank goodness it's staff-only, then!

I was speaking idiomatically.

***Bigblah*** · Local time: Jul 8, 2006, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by Grawl

Well around, when I set the Display Name Format to 'marquee' it doesn't work on

a) staff-members
b) images

I don't know which, since only staff is using images.

Display options don't work on images, but if a staff member is using a display name it'll work as usual.

Originally Posted by Kaleb.G

Just as a suggestion, I think the default setup should be either Display Name On with Asterisk, or Display Name Off with Normal. Display Name On with Normal for default is confusing.

Originally Posted by Duminas

Just one thing is missing from the Lite Set, as far as I can tell.

Updating now.

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***Bigblah*** · Local time: Jul 8, 2006, 11:39 PM

Originally Posted by galen

Did you change it back to asterisks or have you just not edited the display options into the Lite Set?

Also, while we got a thread where shit is happening, can you make it so clicking the avatar links to the user's profile? I always liked that feature...

I've moved the display options into your option settings instead of profile settings.

I'll get to work on the avatar link.

FELIPE NO

***Bigblah*** · Local time: Jul 14, 2006, 01:33 AM

Originally Posted by Musharraf

Well, there's always the possibility to give it to contest winners or other special members like custom titles back in the days when having one used to be a priviledge.

That would be easy to do, since the ability to use images as your display name is based on usergroup.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?