Aliases History

[tulip loom]

Not sure if possible but would love to see a feature of "Previous Names/Aliases" on each player in TxAdmin. We currently use Notes for that, but having this automated would save a lot of time

[civic reef]

The correct way to write is txAdmin instead of TxAdmin.

[delicate plover]

Sounds like something useful, hopefully Tabby agrees with us

What would be a use case for it though?

Like, for you

[tulip loom]

Ofcourse some players might get crazy on changing their names, so some sort of hardcap of lets say 5 or 10 names would work just fine. Or a way to "Pin" a previous name to save it

The main reason for this is that we usually have a pretty good knowledge about most of our players and we don't spend much time looking at / investigating behavior of "known" players.

That said, even the "old dogs" sometimes start changing their names to bizarre things and we simply loose track of who is who. (For example , see pic)

Sure we can look at the play-time (we notice it's one of the old players) we then check their identifiers, try matching it with Discord IDs or character identifiers in-game, to only then identify the person correctly.

And doing this for last 2 years is tiring 😄

[delicate plover]

yeah a list of "previous usernames" sounds really useful

[tulip loom]

In the picture above, the name is some sort of invisible character. And when the word gets spread out more and more players go into this "incognito" mode that sure protects them in some scenarious but is hella hard for admins

[delicate plover]

i didnt know it was possible to have an "invisible" name

[tulip loom]

In HTML this character is &#x1CBC but I'm sure thare are others

[digital pecan]

i like this

[sinful plover]

Maybe also a way to add something that stops these “invisible” names?

[delicate plover]

that's for Cfx to fix

but lets not make this post too bloated in case tabby doesnt wanna scroll back

[sinful plover]

I mean thinking about it, yeah

[delicate plover]

txAdmin just reads the playername from the native

[sinful plover]

Yeah okay

[elfin dragon]

I thought about this a few times, the issue that stopped me is that if we log player names, there is also a expectation that we allow searching for those player names, and that's an issue when thinking of server performance

[tulip loom]

Hmm... At least in my case I don't really need the search functionality, but it makes sense what you are saying

[elfin dragon]

There are, and i can guarantee that I have spent hours and hours making the player names as readable as possible.
I doubt any other fivem project out there has a better function then txAdmin does.
But of course there are like 150 tthousand unicode characters out there, so sometimes a few pass through the cracks

[sinful plover]

Yeah fair enough

[elfin dragon]

are any of those players connected in your server right now? i'd love to see the players.json data so i can filter out tthose invisible characters as well

[tulip loom]

Unfortunately they are not currently connected. Is there anything I can do for you when they do connect?

[civic reef]

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[tulip loom]

I have their entry in the new list

[elfin dragon]

Technically I already filter out the range of zero widths... apparently that one is undocumented https://superuser.com/questions/1611705/why-are-u1cbb-and-u1cbc-invisible-on-windows

[elfin dragon]

use the browser dev tools to intercept the request that happens when you click to open that player's card/modal

and share the response with me

or give me an admin account with no perms and i can do that myself

[sinful plover]

I'm tired and not thinking straight, but isn't there a way to use FireFox's approach on this?

[elfin dragon]

font rendering is not really txadmin's business, leave that to the browser
best i can do is to filter out the known bad ones

[tulip loom]

I'll DM you info

[delicate plover]

shouldnt it be Cfx's task to make sure that the playername is sanitized tho?

just utf-8

[sinful plover]

Yeah okay fair enough

[elfin dragon]

for example people abuse the javanese text adornation characters that are way bigger than a single line

so i remove them

same for zalgo text

[delicate plover]

but what if we just tell people that it's not possible to look for usernames but ids and just make a separate thing on the player modal with previous names?

[sinful plover]

I mean, it still is something cfx should fix

im sure some DB's break bc of these names

[elfin dragon]

Technically if you type in something in the search that would become an empty string, it will convert it to a pure text "emptyname" and that is searchable

so if you type in empty, it will find them

[delicate plover]

wow

[elfin dragon]

@tulip loom Fixed https://github.com/tabarra/txAdmin/commit/e310dd7acd2993709b10a848c0128d0848f2dd3d

[tulip loom]

Thank you, this will make things easier

[delicate plover]

i still feel like the previous names feature would be cool tho

[tulip loom]

It would, true. I don't mind skipping the search functionality if that is the major thing that is blocking such a feature

[elfin dragon]

sure, but not something I can do in 15 minutes

also those characters are just undocumented, apparently

[delicate plover]

lol

[tulip loom]

The lengths some people go to do these things...

[elfin dragon]

on chrome they are rendered as invisible