Feature request to replace user names having giant blue letters with the corresponding normal letters. More and more people are doing it, and it's annoying. : syncforlemmy

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 38 points 9 months ago

I think a simple solution of letting user turn on and off the display name will be nice.

[-] kogasa@programming.dev 10 points 9 months ago

You shouldn't need to disable display names just to combat the 0.01% of people with annoying names. NFKC normalization is a better solution.

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Counterpoint, only "0.01%" of names use annoying font. If thats all it takes to be noticeable, perhaps a toggle is better, then?

[-] kogasa@programming.dev -4 points 9 months ago

No

[-] holycrap@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Or just turn display names of for users with special characters

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I never get to have a fancy font name.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Less jarring than emoji at least.

[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

What about a couple little emoji that onomatopoeia themselves into my username?

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I don't know. How do you think I feel, Zipper Kangabell?

[-] realharo@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago

This is related another issue too, does lemmy do anything to deal with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack?

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

How is that applicable?

[-] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

@_________ac called out

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[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

I edited the image to mask the name. Can you please delete this comment?

[-] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

No, but I edited it.

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Fair. They had posted (and then deleted) a bunch of comments to this post asking to have it taken down, which is why I edited the image. It made them very anxious.

[-] cobysev@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

I saw this post way back in September last year (which was quickly removed), and have been seeing this guy's custom name popping up everywhere since. It's very annoying. I'm all for blocking custom characters in display names.

[-] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago

It's a way to complicated suggestion

Instead do a sha256 of @

So veryfancyfakeuser@lemmy.fake

becomes

🌈cb76aae36c😘@lemmy.fake

And just to f with people add some emojis before and after.

[-] Huschke@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

AKA the Discord approach

[-] Land_Strider@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Not gonna lie I like them so far. Helps understanding there is a person with some flair to them on the other side of the cold text.

However, customization should be a thought twice when implementing. However much anyone should be able to customize and make their stuff different, there should be options for the others to turn their own viewing experience into a rigid framework.

[-] wahming 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, would really appreciate a feature to toggle these nicks. Hope LJ is back from his current break soon

[+] Nacktmull@lemm.ee -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[-] realharo@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Well he's not asking you to change it, he wants his client to translate it locally for him only.

[+] Nacktmull@lemm.ee -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[-] kattenluik@feddit.nl 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They've used your literal public name from a public post you made as an innocent example for their feature request, you are being insanely weird about this and you're only directing attention to yourself while otherwise no one would've cared now.

[+] Nacktmull@lemm.ee -5 points 9 months ago

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[-] kattenluik@feddit.nl 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Incredibly unlucky to have picked you as a small example, I guess. I'd also like to inform you that deleted comments can still be very easily viewed by most apps by selecting different copy options, it's a weird thing.

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