Figure out what to do with display names

[bluebear94]

Currently, Modrinth doesn’t show users’ display names (the value of name on the user endpoint response) on the website. This can lead to nasty surprises if a third-party program uses the display name returned from the API. Moreover, this information can only be changed through the API, as the website doesn’t have an interface for doing so.

Prospector suggested “wiping this field on the backend” (message on Modrinth’s Discord server). If we want to proceed with this, then it could be done in several ways:

• Make the API always return null for name and perhaps disable modifying the field.
• Set the display name of all existing and future users to null in the database.
• If we determine that we no longer want to have display names, then we can remove the name column from the users table outright.

We could also allow users to edit their own display names if we eventually want a display name system.