Display username

[jimaek]

Some users prefer to use a different username on GP than Github. We should have an extra field, empty by default, "Public username". If filled its used for all GP purposes like tags and public profiles

[MartinKolarik]

The only reason we use the username in tags is to avoid naming collisions. If we allowed customizing it, it would have to use yet another format to avoid conflicts with current or future GitHub usernames.

On public pages and other places where we show the username, we usually also link to the user profile, so we'd either:
a) show both the configured username as well as the GH original (in which case, any privacy improvement is gone),
b) add extra logic in how we display the name everywhere based on its type.

All of this seems way too complicated, given that it only affects two non-essential features. If someone really needs to use custom tags and with a different name, they can always create a separate GH account, but it seems like a very rare case.

[jimaek]

We also have requests for corporate GP public profiles. If thats easier we should prioritize it over this

[MartinKolarik]

You mean this? https://globalping.io/users/jsdelivr

[jimaek]

Yes but with functional sponsor linking

[MartinKolarik]

Well, that's an entirely different problem, but for now, we decided to solve it via the manual redirect rules. Those are available if anyone needs them.