Display names (e.g. my display name “Juniper (she/her) 🫐”) don’t seem to be supported, leaving just usernames. It would be nice if display names were supported. Also, profile pictures would be nice, but I recognize that has been requested separately already.

  • aehardingMEnglish
    41·
    21 days ago

    I think there’s a feature request for it. It’s low priority though.

    • Juniper (she/her) 🫐@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      4·
      21 days ago

      Oh yes I see now:

      https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/546

      If you have the time, it appears a user in that issue is hoping for your permission to update a patch fixing this very issue!

      I can understand why it is low priority, but consider that it is outside of basic feature parity with Lemmy. In all other apps (that I have tried) as well as web based frontends (again, that I have tried) the display name is used everywhere.

      I for one selected my username in light of the fact that I would be able to edit the display name on Lemmy, and I find that including my pronouns (I recognize this is a niche use of the display name feature) is an easy and generally consistent way to limit confusion and frame conversations involving me.