Real Names Implemented, please test.

Admin James Puckett

Vanilla has implemented the real names support you asked for and funded. Rather than making real names a required field, the Vanilla team extended the user name functionality. You can now have usernames with up to 50 characters and spaces, and users can change their own user name. So please try changing your user name to your real name and let me know if you have any problems.

Thanks again to everyone who donated to make this happen.

George Thomas

Works great! Thanks so much for the improvement.

Jackson Showalter-Cavanaugh

Does not support hyphens.
— Jackson J. Showalter-Cavanaugh

Mark Simonson

Yay!

Max Phillips

Works great. Thanks, James! Thanks, technology!

[Deleted User]

The user and all related content has been deleted.

Stephen Coles

Excellent! Though it would be better if there was no "Real Name" field in the user profile and there was a note under the username field that real names are encouraged.

André Mora

Doés not support accénts éithér.

Jan Schmoeger

Great stuff!

James Puckett

I’ll let them know about the hyphens and accents.

Nick Shinn

The Nickster is no more.

Mark Simonson

I don't know what it is, but I like it so much better seeing people's names. Makes us look like adults.

Max Phillips

Nickster, we hardly knew ye.

Jan Schmoeger

James: What about just deleting the original "Real name" from the form and re-labelling the "Username" field as "Real name"?

Jan Schmoeger

@James Puckett
Ouch. I think we just broke the cross-reference feature with the spaces in names.

James Puckett

I don’t think the username field can be renamed, it’s probably hard-coded in Vanilla.

I’ll let them know about the broken cross-referencing. I need to send them a lists of accents we need anyway.

Göran Söderström

I have swedish letters in my name, and it says:

Ermin Međedović

Me(dcroat)edovi(cacute)

James Puckett

Does the following glyph set look good for names?

àáăâãäåāąæǽçćčċďðèéêëěėēĕęğģġħìíîĩïīĭįiķĺľļŀłńñňņŋ
òóôõöŏőōøǿœŕŗřśşșšßţțťŧùúûüũūŭůűųẁẃŵẅỳýŷÿźżž

Ermin Međedović

James, it works for the Real name, but for User it stil pops up the same warning.

James Puckett

Vanilla implemented the accents shown above in both cases. Please try it out.

Ermin Međedović

Tried. Same result.

Jan Schmoeger

James, is /dcroat (đ) in your set? I can't see it.

James Puckett

argh, I left the dcroat out. Sorry.

Jack Jennings

Is it possible to @ someone now that we can use spaces in usernames?

Göran Söderström

Works now!

James Puckett

Is it possible to @ someone now that we can use spaces in usernames?

The Vanilla team can’t fix that one.

Ermin Međedović

Tested again. Same result.

James Puckett

Tested again. Same result

They probably won’t fix that until tomorrow or Tuesday. I didn’t send that problem in immediately because I wanted to see what else was broken first.

Ermin Međedović

Well, cacute goes, dcroat not.

Rodrigo Saiani

Tried to update my profile with real name but whenever I saved the new info was lost.