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Show placeholder instead of invisible displaynames #1521

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indeyets opened this issue Mar 23, 2022 · 3 comments
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Show placeholder instead of invisible displaynames #1521

indeyets opened this issue Mar 23, 2022 · 3 comments

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@indeyets
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I believe we should do our best effort to show some kind of visible placeholder instead of displayname, which consists of invisible characters.

We could use the list from https://invisible-characters.com/
FreeFeed Development (ffdev) - FreeFeed 2022-03-23 10-52-13

I suggest we could use White Square U+25A1 character

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clbn commented Mar 23, 2022

See also: clbn/freefeed-gamma@149269d

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indeyets commented Mar 23, 2022

@clbn thanks. that's another way to do that, but seems a bit too harsh… I think white square might be a bit closer to user's intention. They want to be nameless. This solution keeps both the "nameless" aspect and usability of readers

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clbn commented Mar 23, 2022

(What to do after those characters are detected would be another topic for discussion. And I personally don't think the user has the right to be nameless, so falling back to the username is the right thing to do for them.)

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