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Can i change my displayed username?

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Jokes Free4Me (talkcontribs)

On most wikis i edit, i changed my signature (and added a DISPLAYTITLE on my user-page) to have better control over the way WikiMedia interprets my username. However, on Flow i don't seem to be able to customize the text that appears as the author of a message. Am i missing some preference somewhere, or was this just not considered? -- ~~~~

PS Where's the "preview" button? -.-

PPS Why the hell are there nowiki's forced around my message?!?

He7d3r (talkcontribs)

@Jokes_Free4Me: see phab:T90055 for the display name on Flow.

You can use the switch to VisualEditor to preview your comment (blergh!)

About the nowiki tags: It is because you were using the VisualEditor and tried to display 4 tilde characters (or you tried to sign your comment, which is not needed as Flow shows the author's name automatically for each comment).

Jokes Free4Me (talkcontribs)

Again, why is this attitude all around?! "We don't really *need* this anymore, so let's ban its use"... BUT: the nowiki also appears if i try to use bold, italic, links, tables... Are they also not needed anymore, since we now have visual (but tooltip-less) sprites for the most of those?

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