Gitter users have unrecognisable names on IRC

[xelra]

If someone is Jim Carter @jimmieboy on Gitter, they get a @gitter_jimmieboy:matrix.org account on Matrix. On IRC they're displayed as JimCarterGitter[m] and that name even gets truncated if it's too long. It's unrecognisable though, because the really important name is jimmieboy, which means you're constantly browsing GitHub, only to learn the names of the people in the chat and make sense of it all.

The name on IRC should be jimmieboy[g]. It would be really great if that could be changed.

[kegsay]

This isn't a thing which the IRC bridge knows about. It uses the display name and that's it. You'll be better placed to file an issue with that project instead.

[xelra]

That will not work, because in the same way that the irc bridge displays jimmieboy (IRC) on Matrix, the gitter bridge displays Jim Carter (Gitter) on Matrix.

In both directions the display name is not suitable for bridging, but @freenode_jimmieboy:matrix.org and @gitter_jimmieboy:matrix.org is.

[kegsay]

This is a good point. The "correct" solution is to implement https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/646 and allow bridges to identify when they are bridging bridged users so they can modify their logic accordingly. Until that point however, the IRC bridge's behaviour will not be changed.