Martti Malmi on Nostr: Just made Iris use only the "name" field from profile. The concept of "username" can ...
Just made Iris use only the "name" field from profile.
The concept of "username" can be a bit confusing in the context of Nostr, because it's not globally unique, and can be confused with nip05 addresses. "Nickname" or "alias" would be better, but probably not necessary.
Also the UI is simpler and prettier when you don't display a "username" separately.
Everybody implements "name", it's the basic thing and it's here since the beginning, "display_name" was invented as a Damus extra and never announced or specified anywhere, thus it's not implemented in many places.
I agree we don't need both.
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2023-05-01 09:45:51Event JSON
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