Server Version#: Latest Player Version#: N/A This is similar to a topic that was automatically closed: User and Sharing - Nicknames/Note on Users Shared with I have a Plex server that I have shared with several friends and family. In the Dashboard and in Play History, their accounts are shown wit…

There’s a feature suggestion for that… [image] [Implemented] Alias instead of plex.tv usernames Feature Suggestions I guess this has always been the case but I never noticed before. The name PMS shows is the plex.tv username. For security reasons I had kept my plex.tv us…

Not quite. That appears to be related to changing their own username. I would like to change how other user’s accounts are displayed in my own server dashboard.

That’s where the OP starts from, though the suggestion thread is very much about how user names show up for others (e.g. your „Uncle Sam“ might be „Dad“ to your cousin or just „Sam“ to some other friend). This makes sense because e.g. me nick-naming myself will not be a Name others might recognize.

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tom80H October 7, 2021, 10:05pm 2

There’s a feature suggestion for that…

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