How to encourage people to set their user id and display name?

[vnugent]

What would you like to be able to do? Please describe.
When looking at the user profile edit page, most people don't know:

1. You can change the auto-generated user id to your own unique id (no space allowed, similar to IG or Twitter handle)
2. Display name can be a human-friendly name with space Ex: "Jane Doe". A lot of people would put "jane.doe".

How important is this to you (Please pick one)

• Nice-to-have

To do:

• Suggest small UI changes to encourage people to set a user name and a display name

[clintonlunn]

@vnugent is there a way to figure out if the username/display name is the default randomly generated name? It might be nice to only tell the user that they can change their name if they haven't already changed it before.

[vnugent]

The auto-generated name has the following format: <random adjective>_ <random color>_<random animal>.

What we can also do is somehow detect if it's the first login, the code would clear the auto-generated name, forcing the user to change it if they want to update the profile.

[clintonlunn]

@vnugent

Ok there is a loginsCount property that comes in with the userProfile property.

How about we open a tooltip on the user's first login?

I can take issue.

[clintonlunn]

@vnugent how would you feel about routing the user directly to the edit profile page after creating a profile? Then, if it's their first login, we can activate some sort of a stepper component

and if it's not their first login, they'll only see the normal form

[vnugent]

New users are now required to pick a username.