RexSystem1 voteoriginally by @arxari on GitHub2 replies
Just my two cents but I feel like this would be duplicating guild profiles as it doesn't take long to edit the name profile picture.
Also as long as the guild allows it you can rename yourself for free which I think addresses this as it gives you an unpaid solution to distingiush between alters so work on a specific feature would just be duplicating existing work that would likely be more used to bypass plutonium limits than the perceived accessibility improvements it would bring.
If a user wants more customization for their alter profile they can do it like they would with plutonium through guild profiles in addition to renaming themselves but functionally for accessibility I don't think there's anything lacking with renaming as it gives a clear distinctor.
RexSystem1 voteoriginally by @bunnikyuube on GitHub
Unfortunately, it's slower, and cumbersome, and usually an extra click or two from the main display as suggested by some of the proposals here.
If server profiles were a viable alternative, tools like Pluralkit/Octocon, and their alternatives on Fluxer, wouldn't exist, and people would use those options because they're native.
Additionally, server profiles change past messages too- this kind of problem is intended to bypass that. It's intended to link specific messages/actions with specific sub-profile metadata.
Server profiles as-is don't work for multiple reasons: 1. too many clicks to switch, some systems switch multiple times per minute. 2. when a server profile is changed it affects not only new messages but also how all historical messages from the same account are displayed. For plural systems they need historical messages to be displayed with the name of the member that originally said them even after switching later on.
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