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Why displayName have changed?

Jack Nolddor _Sweet Bananas_
Atlassian Partner
September 28, 2019

Since few moths ago, I've detected that some characters like [ ] hace been replaced e.g.:

My displayName si configured to be Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas] but is displayed here since a while as Jack Nolddor -Sweet Bananas- is this a bug? or is an intended changed? If so why?

 

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Regards

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Daniel Eads
Atlassian Team
Atlassian Team members are employees working across the company in a wide variety of roles.
September 30, 2019

Hey @Jack Nolddor _Sweet Bananas_ ,

Per Usernames, privacy, alter egos, and you:

Note: Usernames no longer support (parentheses) or [brackets] and users will be unable to tag you if you try to use them. Use -dashes- or {curly brackets} instead!

Cheers,
Daniel

Jack Nolddor _Sweet Bananas_
Atlassian Partner
September 30, 2019

That was an accurate response ;)

Thanks!

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Bastian Stehmann
Community Champion
September 28, 2019

Hi @Jack Nolddor _Sweet Bananas_ ,

This is an intended change. If I remember right, it is because some characters were causing problems when trying to mention them, so they removed them.

Jack Nolddor _Sweet Bananas_
Atlassian Partner
September 29, 2019

Thanks! No idea why but my name now is displayed correctly.

Jack Nolddor _Sweet Bananas_
Atlassian Partner
September 29, 2019

... and displayed incorrectly again... :(

Monique vdB
Community Manager
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October 4, 2019

@Jack Nolddor _Sweet Bananas_ I recommend using the fancy curly braces. {Sweet Bananas} will work! And it will add that extra level of {sophistication} to your posts. 

Jack Nolddor _Sweet Bananas_
Atlassian Partner
February 21, 2020

No idea why, but using curly braces seems to break my name again... some underscores has been used instead, See:

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But my name is properly configured as shown in my profile :S

ksnip_20200222-005422.png


Is that a bug?
Regards

Daniel Eads
Atlassian Team
Atlassian Team members are employees working across the company in a wide variety of roles.
February 24, 2020

It's halfway between a bug and expected behavior. We're working through a platform issue that prevented people with some special characters from signing in. As a temporary measure, the platform is substituting all non-alphanumeric characters (including spaces) with underscores.

Jack Nolddor _Sweet Bananas_
Atlassian Partner
February 24, 2020

Thanks for letting us know :)
We'll wait then until the problem get fixed.

Regards

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