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Mythotical 06-02-2005 10:00 PM

Publicly Displayed Name
 
Due to the pricing and yearly fee of vBulletin I am no longer creating mods for vBulletin, instead I have stepped out of the shadow of vBulletin to create my own stand alone mods. I wish to thank everyone who downloaded and installed my mods but as of now with not being able to afford hosting and vBulletin, I decided to drop vBulletin so hopes of me returning would only happen if my newest venture brings me a nice profit.

Thank you all again
Steve

Jolten 06-03-2005 11:09 PM

So this basically gives every user the ability to have an alias that's displayed but the username stays the same and can be viewed by everyone on their profile page?

What's the point? other than shear confusion.

bigcurt 06-03-2005 11:53 PM

lol calm down man. How can you not see a use in this? People can put there real name they want used instead of some nickname they came up with earlier..this is great mod.

Marco van Herwaarden 06-03-2005 11:56 PM

Nobody is forcing you to use this Jolten. If you have a board where this makes sense, use it. Otherwise leave it.

Jolten 06-04-2005 12:43 AM

I wasn't meaning to come down hard on this. I just don't see the point. Register with the name you wish to use.

jugo 06-04-2005 01:17 AM

I think it's a GREAT idea.

It provides a small amount of security....think about it....the hackers will have a hard time guesing the real username.

I think it's brilliant.

Jolten 06-04-2005 01:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jugo
the hackers will have a hard time guesing the real username.


not if it's displayed in the public profile.

Adrian Schneider 06-04-2005 02:37 AM

Make sure you change the field5 to your field#.

Corriewf 06-04-2005 02:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jolten
So this basically gives every user the ability to have an alias that's displayed but the username stays the same and can be viewed by everyone on their profile page?

What's the point? other than shear confusion.


I was thinking this hack is cool for a second until I thought about the confusion it would cause with my members. Someone without an avatar could start posting under an alias and my less computer friendly members wouldnt think to check their profile to see who they are.....


What would make this hack much better would be to have the user name in quotes underneath the nickname chosen.

yoyoyoyo 06-04-2005 05:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by corriewf
I was thinking this hack is cool for a second until I thought about the confusion it would cause with my members. Someone without an avatar could start posting under an alias and my less computer friendly members wouldnt think to check their profile to see who they are.....


What would make this hack much better would be to have the user name in quotes underneath the nickname chosen.

agreed


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