Ellipse it like mastodon seems to do, all on the same line, and you can see the full name + instance in the cursor tooltip if you leave it long enough. Would that work or was that already discussed?
I think it was brought up at one point. Part of the issue resolving this is difficulty getting a general preference of a representative sample of the userbase.
I tried changing how usernames are displayed, but the maintainers can’t agree on how it should be done.
It looks like we have Dessalines proposing Hexbear’s implementation now. Why not go with that?
That looks like what we’re gonna go with. It solves the issue of users on one instance impersonating users on another.
Ellipse it like mastodon seems to do, all on the same line, and you can see the full name + instance in the cursor tooltip if you leave it long enough. Would that work or was that already discussed?
I think it was brought up at one point. Part of the issue resolving this is difficulty getting a general preference of a representative sample of the userbase.