so, i understand we want our friends to have their own plex accounts so they can feed barkley +such, but it’d be nice if we could tag them on our side, so when my friend susie signs up with plex account “jfmchjfntbtvd”, i can nickname tag her “susie,” instead of scratching my…

Elan has already mentioned this is on their radar and will most likely be included in an upcoming release at some point.

that’s fantastic. where did he say that? or did i miss it?

A feature request already exists for this. https://forums.plex.tv/topic/128802-feature-request-alias-instead-of-plextv-usernames/ Locking this topic to avoid splitting votes.

[request] personal "nicknames" for users

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[request] personal "nicknames" for users

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