Lemmy user names should only allow standard characters
Lemmy user names should only allow standard characters
To be clear, some really great community members have these names, but they're everywhere now. And with the right characters you can create some really annoying overlaps: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3790
Enough of them floating around now that I'll probably do a PR for my favorite client to filter them out.
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Yes I used to see lots when I used Jerboa, but not one since switching to Boost. It wasn't something that annoyed me at all, but I see your point, it's something that could be exploited I guess
This reminds me of a situation previously where a user's pronoun wasn't visible to another user because their client did not show display names
A solution for this that doesn't alienate usernames with pronouns and non-latin languages will be tricky IMO, to be honest I'd just leave it as-is since the fancy display names I've seen so far aren't excessive or abusing unicode modifiers.
Just because people use display names for that doesn't mean display names are a good place to indicate pronouns, and it especially doesn't mean that having a client use usernames is alienating anyone who currently puts non-name data in a name field.
I'd much rather there be a dedicated field where it can be treated with the importance it deserves and not just lumped in with other miscellany as a kludge.