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Get rid of that "Resident" business; it's jes fer backwards compatibility. Unless yer reallllly countin' on SL bringin' Last Names back.

yes, please get rid of resident

Sadly, Firestorm cannot control that. The availability of last names is handled at Linden Lab's end.

I dunno if ya get my meanin'. I mean, remove that box fer Last Name altogether, and replace "First Name" in th'first box with "Username". Can ya do that, or does th'UI come from LL?

Officially, avis in SL don't have "first names" or "last names" no more, and it's confusin' t'refer to 'em.

Now if y'all really wanna be clever, you'd figure out a way fer folks t'type in a Display Name on th'website, and have it be set inworld automatically.

Thank you for clarifying. The dropdown is tied into the API code we receive from LL, as well. Even after all these years, the API still needs a last name entered in order to work, so it defaults to "Resident."

The data entered on the signup page goes directly to LL, of course (Firestorm doesn't receive any account info), so some aspects of the page's appearance likewise can't be changed, though we did add the text at

the top warning users that their username would be visible to all. Our web developer can look into ways to hide the dropdown (that is, it still registers the Resident data but isn't seen), but we might have to

wait for LL to update the API code, which we have heard might happen around the 31st. So while we would like to get rid of that dropdown, it may or may not happen.

Ordinary Residents can't have first and last names any more. Strangely the Lindens still have first and last names. Funny thing that.

I'm also active in InWorldz, where you can choose any first or last name as long as it's not your real life name or offensive.

Ya can't use yer RL name? That's weird.

Th'way I see it, yer last name in SL is whatever ya want it t'be, and ya can change it whenever ya like, via yer Display Name. Usernames jes don't mean what they usedta.

Usernames're more like phone numbers or social security numbers. Th'problem comes when people, viewers, or scripts use th'Username when they oughta use th'Display Name.