XF 2.3 Question about user '@' aliases

[christisking]

I would like to be able to customize the '@' alias, or whatever it's called, for a given user.

For example I want to have '@admin' pointing to an admin user, but their account name is something else.

Or if a user name has some unusual characters but I want to simplify it so it's easier for people to type.

I assume this is stored in the database somewhere and I could monkey around with it but before I do anything like that I want to understand better.

How would this be accomplished and what would be the potential problems one might run into?

One thing I could think of is if you created an alias and then someone registers an account with that same name there would be a conflict.

However if XF presented the options in the drop down menu then it might not be so bad if the same alias referred to multiple accounts.

For example @admin could point to all the admins and the user could select the one they want to alert from the drop down menu.

I think it would be really useful if XF had something built-in to manage this, or if someone created an add-on to do it.

 

[jeb35]

There is a mention usergroup addon but it's not 2.3 compatible only 2.2.

You can't have 2 members with the same username, when you register it won't allow it.