Maryanne Solo Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 ...appear in Le Fora instead of system names? Is that possible to do easily? I've never heard any discussion regarding this but I could be wrong in saying that. I may have missed it. It does when you log into the SL website proper. 🙄(I know they're totally different from each other). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleMe Jewell Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 (edited) By "Le Fora", do you mean here in the forums? If so, hell no - as in I don't want to see them here. I don't even show display names inworld. Too many people use garbage characters. True usernames only for me. Edited March 4, 2020 by LittleMe Jewell 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyssa Greymoon Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 I think the option should be available. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mollymews Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 i vote for displaynames Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmoe Whitfield Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 It's not going to be possible, the forum is setup to pull from a synced database of usernames from SL, so when you sign up for SL you sign up for the forum, there might be a trick to singing up on the forum directly, but dono. but LL only syncs that table for username with what we signup for SL with, I run a small opensim grid and that's how we are doing it with our xenoforo forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryanne Solo Posted March 4, 2020 Author Share Posted March 4, 2020 58 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said: By "Le Fora", do you mean here in the forums? If so, hell no - as in I don't want to see them here. I don't even show display names inworld. Too many people use garbage characters. True usernames only for me. Forum yes lol. 13 minutes ago, bigmoe Whitfield said: It's not going to be possible, the forum is setup to pull from a synced database of usernames from SL, so when you sign up for SL you sign up for the forum, there might be a trick to singing up on the forum directly, but dono. but LL only syncs that table for username with what we signup for SL with, I run a small opensim grid and that's how we are doing it with our xenoforo forum. Yes I suspected that and I forgot about all the horrendous ones too. Oh well. 😙 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Fyrewik Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 Well, probably with the new Last Names feature being rolled out soon, you will probably be ble to get your desired name on the forums as well, as your new name was supposed to become your username as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmoe Whitfield Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 52 minutes ago, lavalois said: Well, probably with the new Last Names feature being rolled out soon, you will probably be ble to get your desired name on the forums as well, as your new name was supposed to become your username as well. depends on if that's added to the table on the database that this get's pulled from, you might retain the original singup data, depending if the change can be done, because the forum is not an LL product, so if it can be done invision will have to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alwin Alcott Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 3 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said: If so, hell no totally agree... imagine to get the whole crap of unsupported ( or worse; supported) load of nonsense symbols here... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Convair Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 You can change your displayname once per week. Do you really think you can remember who is who after a while? Plus all the names you can neither read nor remember. I will only remember the old farts that keep their legacy names all the time. 😁 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coby Foden Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 For display names in the forums I vote: Because lots of them are just unreadable rubbish. And there are other valid reasons too, already mentioned above. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qie Niangao Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 When display names were new, I went out of my way to change scripts to use them. Then I saw how display names were actually being used in the wild, and I've never again used them in scripts in any way; it's as if they don't exist for me. I imagine the work on the New Last Names feature includes updates to all SL's web presence including the forums. That's good, but has a downside: I won't have a clue who the new names are, all with huge postcounts. I can't even track who's alt of which defunct forums persona, so I'll never keep up with changing names. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arduenn Schwartzman Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 From now on, I want you all to call me (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fauve Aeon Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 20 minutes ago, Arduenn Schwartzman said: From now on, I want you all to call me (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻. ‘Eki’ for short then? 益 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arduenn Schwartzman Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 1 minute ago, Fauve Aeon said: ‘Eki’ for short then? Sure 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleMe Jewell Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 3 hours ago, Qie Niangao said: I imagine the work on the New Last Names feature includes updates to all SL's web presence including the forums. That's good, but has a downside: I won't have a clue who the new names are, all with huge postcounts. OMG, I hadn't even considered how folks will appear here in the forums - what a nightmare that might be. Then again, it will be a nightmare inworld too - trying to keep track of who is who. I'll need to wear a HUD that feeds me the original name of folks when I click on them or something. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaise Glendevon Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 Hell, no. If I wanted to read gibberish, I'd change the default font to Wingdings. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alwin Alcott Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 22 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said: what a nightmare that might be. if you see "Sweetypie" with around 9500 posts, it's me 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenJen Sommerfleck Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 30 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said: OMG, I hadn't even considered how folks will appear here in the forums - what a nightmare that might be. Then again, it will be a nightmare inworld too - trying to keep track of who is who. I'll need to wear a HUD that feeds me the original name of folks when I click on them or something. This is why I have the option turned on to show display names and legacy names both. I have it set that way for over the avatars head and in the friends list. I just can't with not finding people. Some have had the same display name since the onset of display names and I've forgotten their legacy name, so I have to find them by display name, others change as soon as they can, so i have to find by legacy name. WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE THIS HARD?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanda Crisp Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 *I* want.... #1 .. a pony #2 ..a setting that toggles off special characters in Name-lines and force-displays name text in easily-readable characters #3 .. true love as long as a lot of sex is involved 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregorian Chant Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 One time I tried to contact a SL vlogger with no success. They apparently went by their display name and of course, they left no clues to their username so finding them was near impossible. To suggest the forum adopt display names over usernames? I say.... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Gregoire Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 How about... NO! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alwin Alcott Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 40 minutes ago, AmandaKeen said: *I* want.... #1 .. a pony #2 ..a setting that toggles off special characters in Name-lines and force-displays name text in easily-readable characters #3 .. true love as long as a lot of sex is involved as you can't get all 3 i'd say you can opt in at nr 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitsy Buccaneer Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 1 hour ago, Alwin Alcott said: if you see "Sweetypie" with around 9500 posts, it's me sets up a gofundme for the name change fee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missyrideout Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, AmandaKeen said: #2 ..a setting that toggles off special characters in Name-lines and force-displays name text in easily-readable characters Not ideal but Firestorm contact sets can help at least. I don't want to disable display names but some drive me crazy, special characters, content, whatever. If you add someone to a contact list you can assign them an alias or strip their display name ("Rem DN") on a case by case basis. Maybe everybody knows this but as something I recently discovered, thought I would mention it! I'll probably use this to remind me who people are when name changes happen as well. Edited March 4, 2020 by missyrideout 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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