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.
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.
Edited the image to stop putting the person on blast.
I think a simple solution of letting user turn on and off the display name will be nice.
Or just turn display names of for users with special characters
Today I learned Lemmy accounts can have a display name. I thought it was just their account name.
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.
It's a way to complicated suggestion
Instead do a sha256 of @
So veryfancyfakeuser@lemmy.fake
becomes
πcb76aae36cπ@lemmy.fake
And just to f with people add some emojis before and after.
AKA the Discord approach
This is related another issue too, does lemmy do anything to deal with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack?
How is that applicable?
Not the original commenter, but it seems they're asking if lemmy is doing anything about imposters. These are all different characters: "Greek Ξ (039F), Latin O (004F), and Cyrillic Π (041E)" so someone could look like they have an official username, when really it's a different unicode character. Nothing to do with the actual IDN part, but moreso about the "homograph" part, or even more accurately, homoglyph
How about they do whatever characters or emojis they want but the size is limited to xx pixels?
I would prefer to set the colours that I see, makes it easier to tell who is a commentor and who is OP
That's not quite as straightforward as you think. These are emojis, they ARE text, just like letters from various languages...etc are also text.
It would be a hell of a lot easier just to ban non-ascii characters than to start changing the font size based on each individual character. This would also be something that every single client would have to implement themselves which they definitely would not, the rendering performance implications would turn it into more work than you would think.
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.
Yeah, would really appreciate a feature to toggle these nicks. Hope LJ is back from his current break soon
I don't mind them and I don't understand what the outrage is about. I've been able to identify some of these individuals across threads because they tend to stand out and I find that very endearing from a community POV. I'd rather have some form of personalization rather than slapping everyone with a uniform.
I don't think anyone is outraged. It's just an annoyance. I'm happily scrolling and reading titles and then N O T I C E M E!. It's a distraction.
A name alone is personalization enough.
These posts sound more than an annoyance.
A name alone is personalization enough.
I don't think so. People literally pay for personalization and a customized experience. If it were enough, we wouldn't be here asking to normalize usernames in the first place.
I never get to have a fancy font name.
Less jarring than emoji at least.
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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.