There were discussions on this topic here, just 19 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37332126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37332126 The hi

There were discussions on this topic here, just 19 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37332126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37332126 The hivemind consensus among most popular recommendations was to have a nickname field, followed by a full name field only if must, and don't try to validate names, Asian or not. Which is btw exactly how most social medias are built right now.