Profile Enhancements - 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]

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]

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]

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

[Jolten]

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]

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]

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]

Make sure you change the field5 to your field#.

[Corriewf]

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]

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