Two users with the the same name appear as the same person

[lzmartinico]

On zulip-term version 0.6.0, if two users have the same name and send two messages in sequence within the same topic, the messages will be displayed as if coming from the same user

[neiljp]

@lzmartinico Thanks for reporting this! I suspect this is present in main also, though have not confirmed.

This should be fairly simple to resolve via comparing user ids rather than names.

[lzmartinico]

Glad to hear there is an easy fix! Maybe there should be another ticket (or meta ticket), but support for users with the same name is somewhat lacking overall (e.g. when tagging a user through autocompletion, it's impossible to know which one is selected)

[neiljp]

@lzmartinico Autocomplete is improved further in the current development version after GSoC, and may well resolve the issue you're describing.

Generally if you have other separate then other issues (or a general issue we can split out) are a good idea - or if you wish to discuss a potential range of issues then it's likely better to raise this in a topic in the #zulip-terminal stream on chat.zulip.org :)

[prah23]

@lzmartinico thank you for the feedback!

We have additional autocomplete improvements for tagging users (disambiguation using an appended user ID, #928 for reference), as well as using users' names as private message recipients, currently on the main branch. It will be a part of the next release, but you can also pull that from main as the latest installation as mentioned on our README.

Any additional feedback is highly appreciated!

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[Dishti-Oberai]

I am still working on it