New Profile Field Test - input please

***Lilaena De'Ville*** · Oct 24th, 2015, 10:27:21 PM

There was a suggestion made to me regarding how confusing it is when people have a bunch of alt-characters - we do sometimes use the Profile pictures to visually link our accounts together but this requires clicking through to the profile.

So now there's an option in your profile (Settings > Edit Profile) called "AKA" for your RL name or nickname you go by. Completely voluntary (we COULD make it mandatory, but it isn't), and when you fill it in the name will appear in the postbit under your avatar like where Location and Post Count are now.

The template change has only been done in Darth Purple, so please switch to that style and view this thread and then vote on the poll I'm going to add to it. It can be put above or below the other fields already under the avatar, but I'd like to hear your opinions.

***Sasseeri Reeouurra*** · Oct 24th, 2015, 10:28:43 PM

I'm posting with a few of my accounts so you can see how it works.

***Serena Laran*** · Oct 24th, 2015, 10:29:30 PM

The idea being that we can easily see who is who without having to jump around the board to do so. It can be pretty confusing!

**Droo** · Oct 24th, 2015, 10:33:00 PM

I think this is a simple, but very useful change. A feature like this would make it easier for me, let alone new people, to determine who is who around here. Profile pictures are handy but not everyone uses them in the same way, if at all. And the Who's Who thread is usually out of date, due to so many new characters being made so often. If people can just remember to include their AKA/out-of-character name when they make a new character, that would go a long way to figuring out who roleplays who.

**Sadie K'Vesh** · Oct 24th, 2015, 10:47:09 PM

Hmm... not sure why but I'm not seeing it (using the Blues style). So... no opinion yet!

***Lilaena De'Ville*** · Oct 24th, 2015, 10:50:18 PM

It's only in the Darth Purple style, you have to switch using the drop down menu. I wanted to make sure people were ok with it or liked it before we did a bunch of styleset template changes, so I just did it to the one.

**Sadie K'Vesh** · Oct 24th, 2015, 11:10:40 PM

You totally had that written and I didn't see it like a doofus... >_> my bad.

I shall vote now! (I quite like it by the way. it's unobtrusive there and is a nice little "oh hey!")

**Captain Untouchable** · Oct 25th, 2015, 12:28:28 AM

I like it!

Tiny bit of cosmetic input: it might make more sense if AKA showed before Location. Not everyone has that Location field filled in (eg. Droo's ooc account)... moving it so AKA comes before it means that it's always going to be the second item in the list regardless of whether you have Location filled in or not.