Better names for people joining via the website

[dreeves]

Currently people going to the website via https://lexiguess.onrender.com get auto-assigned a name like "important-receptionist".

Desiderata

• Discuss easiest way to improve on that
• Do the "what should we call you" popup thing
• Decide whether that suffices

Verbata: web client, nicknames, nicks, usernames,

[dreeves]

First idea: when you load the page, have it prompt you "Enter a nickname to begin: ___".

If there's anything else more expedient (sticking the username in the URL?) that'd be fine too. That might be a cool feature regardless, like if I'm inviting Alice to play Lexiguess I can be like "hey, alice, click http://lexiguess.onrender.com/alice to come play with us" and it automatically calls her alice (unless someone else is already there called alice?).

But first let's just do whatever's easiest to get rid of the unwieldy autogenerated names.

[dreeves]

Update: this isn't the highest priority but could be worthwhile if fun and easy.