Possibility to anonymize yourself

[Lanhild]

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On signup, it would be useful if a user could select whether or not they want to show their personal information to other users.

If they chose this option, their profile picture would be redacted and their name randomly generated.

This "Be anonymous" would be a one time choice, you cannot revert back/opt-in after your account is created.

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[kesrishubham2510]

Hi @Lanhild, I would like to contribute to this feature, can you please describe further ?

[kesrishubham2510]

any chance, I can contribute something with Java ?

[Lanhild]

@kesrishubham2510 I think what I already wrote cannot describe it further:

On signup, it would be useful if a user could select whether or not they want to show their personal information to other users.

If they chose this option, their profile picture would be redacted and their name randomly generated.

This "Be anonymous" would be a one time choice, you cannot revert back/opt-in after your account is created.

[kesrishubham2510]

yeah, sure

[zahash]

@Lanhild why not instead just avoid uploading a profile picture and choose a random username yourself?

[Lanhild]

@Lanhild why not instead just avoid uploading a profile picture and choose a random username yourself?

To prevent from having to do it manually like you just described.

[codesmith25103]

Is anyone working on this issue? If not, I want to work on this issue.