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Hi @dampfklon,
Currently we are NOT saving unregistered people (guest) authorship, so I think it might not needed be able to change guest name.
BTW, hackpad also can't change guest name.
Hi
its not about saving the authorship, the current cursor positions are currently shown in the editor with the generic guest names, those are not really usefull so I thought changing them to a meaningfull name would be nice
Yeah, now we'll give a random name from a package called chance.
So this sounds like a reasonable idea!
But the name will only last for a session, maybe kind of costly to user?
I can only argue from our use case. We use hackmd to write protocols of online meetings while those take place many people simultaneously work on a document. In this case the generic names are bad because you can not see who writes. After the meeting is over the document no longer is edited. So a name only last a session would no problem.
This also extends to "let people in general choose their own name". Right now, I'm registered with an email address starting with mail@<something>. My Hackmd calls me mail - I haven't found a place to change it, yet.
Here we generate the username. Currently, there is no way to update it afterward. It's not a trivial issue, but can be done by someone who is familiar to JS.
This would be great. We have the exact same usecase as @dampfklon (+ the same problem with many users just called "mail" because that's how their email address begins).
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jackycute commentedon Dec 5, 2016
Hi @dampfklon,
Currently we are NOT saving unregistered people (guest) authorship, so I think it might not needed be able to change guest name.
BTW, hackpad also can't change guest name.
dampfklon commentedon Dec 5, 2016
Hi
its not about saving the authorship, the current cursor positions are currently shown in the editor with the generic guest names, those are not really usefull so I thought changing them to a meaningfull name would be nice
jackycute commentedon Dec 5, 2016
Yeah, now we'll give a random name from a package called
chance.So this sounds like a reasonable idea!
But the name will only last for a session, maybe kind of costly to user?
dampfklon commentedon Dec 6, 2016
I can only argue from our use case. We use hackmd to write protocols of online meetings while those take place many people simultaneously work on a document. In this case the generic names are bad because you can not see who writes. After the meeting is over the document no longer is edited. So a name only last a session would no problem.
jackycute commentedon Dec 7, 2016
OK, let's do this.
ccoenen commentedon Jan 5, 2017
This also extends to "let people in general choose their own name". Right now, I'm registered with an email address starting with
mail@<something>. My Hackmd calls memail- I haven't found a place to change it, yet.jackycute commentedon Jan 6, 2017
@ccoenen That's another issue #314
SISheogorath commentedon Oct 6, 2017
Some hints:
https://github.com/hackmdio/hackmd/blob/ea9b1557f9834b2b140bd9b07488b5fca3953791/lib/realtime.js#L595-L623
Here we generate the username. Currently, there is no way to update it afterward. It's not a trivial issue, but can be done by someone who is familiar to JS.
dakira commentedon Feb 12, 2018
This would be great. We have the exact same usecase as @dampfklon (+ the same problem with many users just called "mail" because that's how their email address begins).
Merge pull request hackmdio#268 from stefandesu/patch-1