LJ Changes

[c9]

How interesting! the lj user tag now reports the user's real name, rather than their username, but only sometimes. When I do it, it's still the old way.Can somebody explain why that is?

Examples: leapfish, nihilicious, c9

(How'd I do that? <lj user=leapfish>)

Comments

[leapfish.livejournal.com]

Perhaps some people don't include their real names in their profiles, and put their user names there instead.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Ahh, good thought, but your profile says Vincent yet the link says leapfish. Hmmmm.

[strainednoodles.livejournal.com]

Whenever I use it I always get their username... but you can do funky things with links though, which you can do anyways... I'm way too tired this morning so I'm going to share my useless information that you know already....

Example.
<lj user="c9"> = c9
[Unknown site tag]
<a href="lj://user/c9/">Cameron</a> = Cameron (https://www.dreamwidth.org/users/c9/)

But that's still not the same because you don't get the funky little icon.

I'm out of ideas...

sixr18

[sixr18.livejournal.com]

Well....I do mine through the lj client (semagic). If you do it like (c9) then it does it the old way...and if you use the client and pick their name it automatically puts their real name or the name on their journal.
Cameron
I tried to do it where it would post the code but I couldnt get it to not make the icon lol!

Re: sixr18

[c9.livejournal.com]

Ahh, that must be it. Crazy clients, they can do anything!