[Feature]: Option do disable usernames in feed

[Taxxor90]

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What is the feature that you would like to have added?

I generally like to see the users instance in comments, but with posts that are a bit longer, this setting sometimes takes up too much space in compact feed view. The only thing I could do right now is to disable the users instance to at least save one line but that also disables it for comments, where I want to see it.

You could add an option to only disable the instance in feed view but I'd rather like an option to not show the user at all in feed view. That way you could also move the timestamp to the same row as the other infos and make the posts more compact. You'd still see the username and its instance when opening the post of course.

Solution

This is how a wider post would look without a username

Alternatives

Ideally in the future there should be three separate appearance options for feed, post and comment view where you can set if you want to see the username, the users instance, the community and the comunities instance.

I don't know if and how something like this is already planned (at least I saw no open issues regarding this) but of all the things you could implement in regard to these settings the "hide username in feed" option is the one that I'm missing the most.

[sgriff96]

I don't know if we'd really want to not show the user, but i could see a good use case for a toggle to only display instance in the post.

[Taxxor90]

Well from my pov I don't really care about who exactly wrote the post when I'm just browsing in feed view and I'd gladly trade only seeing the user when I actually open a post for the feed being extra compact.

But that's just me of course that's why ideally you'd have both options, either disable instance name in feed or disable both username and instance name