Turn order name visibility

This seems like a bug, but the turn order should show the names of creatures, especially your party members, even if they're not in your Journal. Why would anyone want to hide all the names by default, doesn't make sense to me.

You have it turned off. To turn it on edit the token, go to the 3 dots above the name section, checkmark Edit and See as desired.  "Edit" enables folks who control the token to see the name, "See" enables everyone to see the name. 

I am the player. I assume it's turned off by default, which seems weird for an initiative tracker. The DM has to manually enable See for all players for all creatures?

Yes, the DM would need to checkmark "See" for the non-controlling players to be able to see a creature's name.  In most D&D style games I have ever run or seen played a player would not see a monster's name on either the token or the turn order. 

You can see how dumb it looks in the screenshot. Feel free to run your games how you want, you don't have to justify it with all the games where you hide the party members names from each other. Doesn't make sense to me why that screenshot would be a default.

Because naming creatures leads to metagaming as players start looking up their statblocks etc.  In 40+ years of gaming players do not automatically get the creature's name for creatures they are fighting. I see no reason that should change.  In any case, this is between you and your DM, they can change the setting if they wish. 

Gauss said: Because naming creatures leads to metagaming as players start looking up their statblocks etc.  I think we've lost the plot now, thanks.

It's a dumb default.

You are the first person I have seen post in the last 12 years of Roll20 that has felt it was a dumb default.  But like I said, your DM can change it. It is a setting they can change to change all of them in the game. 

Thanks Champ

It is hidden by default, and your GM can turn it on for each Token,  but also your GM can change the Defaults. The GM can reset the default to be what they want. So your GM has the Default-defaults, so to speak. They may not be aware it looks that way (because the GM view shows all the names), or they may have not thought of changing it (the settings for this are a little hidden).  Best you could do is ask your GM to change it.