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Revert preferred name feature

Sivert Olstad requested to merge revert-preferred-name into main

Reverts the preferred name feature introduced in !439 (merged). I was excited about this feature, but I think it doesn't work in practice, for multiple reasons:

  • People set their preferred name to joke names
  • People edit their preferred name to be just their first name, when we need the first letter of their last name to distinguish people with the same first name
  • It's more difficult to know who someone is when you don't have their full name
  • It looks weird (this could be solved by just getting used to it)

The first problem can be fixed by restricting users from changing their own preferred name. Instead, people could ask the board or vevansvarleg to change their name. This sort of solves the second problem too, but ignores the real reason people change their preferred name to be just their first name - because they don't identify with e.g. "Sivert O" instead of just "Sivert". Instead of giving everyone names they don't really identify with, it's better to show everyone's full name.

We can consider exploring this feature again in a more limited capacity in the future, but for now I think we should just revert everything.

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