When you type in the search field the text populates in the 'GOTO user' option, selecting that seems to work...
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2024
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There's an option to set a display name in the settings.
I donβt see that option anywhere.
Go to this page and search for "displayname"
Iβm asking about other peopleβs names, not my own. When I search for other people- itβs says they donβt exist. Yet they do where I can see their comments.
I believe they're taking about in your own profile, you can set your display name to be different from your username. For instance, my username is AFKBRBChocolate, but I have it set to display with spaces. If you click on the username in a post, it should show you what it really is.
Looking at this from Voyager you have no custom name displayed, it is just β[email protected]β. My guess is that voyager doesn't show those, same as with profile pictures.
Oh, could be. I got here sorting by new, and I'm not a Voyager user, but I thought I had some insight. Maybe I don't - apologies for the detour.
Please don't apologize for wanting to be helpful! At least I learned about a new feature that is essentially hidden from me as a mobile only user. Good to know!
So how would one know what someoneβs actual user name is?
Pretty sure we always see the actual user name, but not the custom nicknames.
Nope. Because when I try and search most people, it says they donβt exist.
Can you provide an actual example?
Sure thing!
I don't have an account on lemm.ee, so that is why it likely does not come up. Not sure how to expand search within servers federated with your instance in voyager.
So it only searches without my own instance?
You have to put the instance name if you want to search for a user. I just did the same search on voyager for [email protected] and it went straight to their profile.
Otherwise yeah, the search probably defaults to only users on your server.
@[email protected] has the right of it. @[email protected], to search for a user not on your instance, you have search for 'username@instancedomain'. If you only search the username, it will search only in your local instance.
Edit : but when trying to tag somebody, it is able to search through other instances so maybe there is a way to implement the same technique to the search section.
Edit 2 : all my points above are for specifically how voyager behaves not how lemmyui and other clients do.
Perhaps its a federation issue?
I doubt it is the nickname feature since according to the person who ~~first brought up the feature~~ responded to the first person bringing it up their chosen nickname is different from what I can see, which is their actual account name. Refer to the according comments further up
Maybe their display name isn't the same as their login, which is what the search looks for, so it doesn't show up when looking for their display name.