CrayonRosary@lemmy.world to Sync for Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 months agoFeature 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.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1157arrow-down121file-text
arrow-up1136arrow-down1imageFeature 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.lemmy.worldCrayonRosary@lemmy.world to Sync for Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 months agomessage-square39fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAnnoyed_🦀 🏅@monyet.cclinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·8 months agoI think a simple solution of letting user turn on and off the display name will be nice.
minus-squareKogasa@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down4·8 months agoYou shouldn’t need to disable display names just to combat the 0.01% of people with annoying names. NFKC normalization is a better solution.
minus-square𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoCounterpoint, only “0.01%” of names use annoying font. If thats all it takes to be noticeable, perhaps a toggle is better, then?
minus-squareholycrap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-28 months agoOr just turn display names of for users with special characters
minus-squareCrayonRosary@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·8 months agoToday I learned Lemmy accounts can have a display name. I thought it was just their account name.
I think a simple solution of letting user turn on and off the display name will be nice.
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.
Counterpoint, only “0.01%” of names use annoying font. If thats all it takes to be noticeable, perhaps a toggle is better, then?
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.