How to make Facebook Connect users create a Username?
 

Everytime a person registers through Facebook Connect, they are generated a Username based on their real name. Is their a way to get VBulletin to require a user to create one of their choosing instead?

I understand Auto-Register may need to be turned off, but I don't want them to go through all steps of the process for signing-up.

hello, does anyone know yet :)

I would like to know this too.. Does anyone know ?

We are just setting this up now and have the same question. Was this ever answered anywhere?

Check out digitalpoint's mod "Digital Point Better Facebook Registration". It will "Make new user registration from Facebook Connect default to Facebook username, not real name."

This is something that should be in the default facebook intagration I think.

That looks like what we need, thanks! Only unfortunate thing is that you can't have the user create a custom username (it uses their Facebook one) but this is much better than using their real name.

Good luck on getting them to think that way. Luckily, we have Shawn to fall back on, huh? ;)

They should be able to change it once they start the registration, shouldn't they?

The main advantage that forums have on facebook is that forums can be more anonymous. Most people use their real name for their facebook account. People should be able to add a forum account name, instead of their facebook name being used.

That is where dp's mod comes in handy.

Unless you have something to hide, why do you need to be anonymous on a forum? I actually like seeing real names instead of usernames on my forum.

We also added a field on our forum so you can display your real name in addition to your user name. An admin can always change the Facebook real name to a user name if the user wants this.

Thanks for the answers, I just think this needs to be integrated into VB and not a mod sadly

Odds are that that's not going to happen

I'm quite confused - maybe there was a mod I installed but in my forum, under Settings and Facebook options all you have to do is disable auto-register and that will take care of this.

Consider forums where people talk about their medical or psychological issues, addictions, relationships, financial topics, or anything else that people do not want to share with the rest of the world or their future employers.