element-hq / element-hq/element-android

"..." shown as username for users without a display name

Open
#1,695 1 comment 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub
Dominant language
Kotlin
Stars
3.7k
Forks
917
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Description

Many of my less technical contacts have no display name. I'm not sure how they managed to do that - I'm guessing an earlier version of riot-web or riot-android allowed you to register with a blank display name (nowadays they appear to use your username if you leave the display name field blank).

The earlier Riot clients defaulted to showing the full username (@user:home.srv) whenever a user's display name was missing, however RiotX shows "..." instead, probably because there's no room to show the entire room ID.
This can be quite confusing when looking at your chat overview, as the only way to distinguish the conversations is by looking at their pictures.

Might be related to #1207.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Assessment

This issue has not been assessed yet.

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.