Timeline for display_name isn't always there (should have OpenID name if needed)
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 9:39 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackoverflow.com/ with https://meta.stackoverflow.com/
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| May 31, 2010 at 10:18 | comment | added | Jonathan. | Ok so the newbie-25 guy has asked one question. In that question it says the person who wrote that question is newbie-25. He doesn't have a display name so instead of the API returning nothing for display-nane it should return newbie-25 | |
| May 30, 2010 at 23:52 | comment | added | Dennis Williamson | @George: No, the userxxx names are for unregistered users. @Jonathan: The empty display name is for registered users, based on their OpenID, who have not entered a display name such as the one in your second question (as pointed out by S.Mark). It's related to Jeff's answer to the question I linked to above. | |
| May 30, 2010 at 18:41 | comment | added | Jonathan. | No I'm saying that whatever the name of the person displayed in the actual question thread should be returned by the API. eg in this question it says "asked 3 hours ago Jonathan 101 @ 1" it should just return the Jonathan bit as the username of the question asker. So what ever the SO site displays in the question is what appears in the JSON file. | |
| May 30, 2010 at 16:53 | comment | added | Nathan Osman |
Are you referring to the userxxx names? You get those and others when a user registers an OpenID but doesn't fill in their display name.
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| May 30, 2010 at 15:53 | comment | added | Jonathan. | this doesn't address the fact that the wrong users are being associated with questions. Also the API should return the username that appears on the question on the SO site. | |
| May 30, 2010 at 15:39 | history | answered | Dennis Williamson | CC BY-SA 2.5 |