Last modified: 2014-01-31 18:33:35 UTC
i find it very confusing that flow currently displays my username even if i did not make a contribution. additionally, it is hard to find my own one contribution to a page with all these "false alarms". please do _not_ use the user name to denote something like "comment here to topic xxx".
The WMF core features team tracks this bug on Mingle card https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/flow/cards/620, but people from the community are welcome to contribute here and in Gerrit.
I also think this is unnecessary. In the current design the own username could even be mistaken as a signature for the preceding comment.
I think this will be fixed as part of wider changes to the replying/commenting UI.
The username shouldn't appear until you click into the reply box; that will ensure you won't get tripped up by it when scanning the page or searching for your name via control-f. That also helps resolve the slight weirdness of seeing your IP address in that area when you're logged out (new users are confused by this).
Change 106275 had a related patch set uploaded by Matthias Mullie: (bug 58413) Hide usernames until reply form is active https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/106275
What about non-JS users, for which we can't have any changes based on interaction like clicking the reply box? The above patch will keep it as-is for those users, with the username still showing above every reply form (makes most sense to me)
Change 106275 merged by jenkins-bot: (bug 58413) Hide usernames until reply form is active https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/106275
