Tech Note: Comments Now Show Your ‘Display Name’

Brave new comment world
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Our new feature of the day has to do with comments; when you post a comment, your username is shown on the top line. This is how it’s been at LGF for lo, these many years.

But now, you can actually change the name that shows up in your comment, by entering a new name for your “display name” in your Account Settings.

This means that anyone with an LGF account can now use almost any name they like when posting comments.

But you can still easily find out who’s really behind that display name; just hover your mouse over it for a second or two and their real username will pop up. The real username is also shown in the Profile dialog box, when you click a user’s icon.

Note that changing your display name will change what appears in all your comments; if you’ve posted a comment previously with a different display name, it will change when you change the name.

And just in case someone decides to abuse this feature and impersonate someone for less-than-groovy reasons, I’ve coded it so that I have a simple, one-click way to completely turn it off and show only real usernames again.

Have at it. And try not to get discombobulated.

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