Comments on: Social Web Links On Profile Pages

Social Web Links On Profile Pages

pb — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:32:36 -0800

New profile feature: link to your stuff at other social sites. [more inside]

By: pb

pb — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:33:05 -0800

Flickr photos on profile pages went over well, so we just added the ability to link to other community sites from your profile page. To add a link, click on "My Profile" at the top of any page, "edit profile" from that page, and scroll down to the bottom of the "Customize Metafilter" page. Next to "Also On", choose a service name from the drop-down menu and then enter your username at that site. If you want to add another link, click "add another service" and you'll get another menu/name combo. When you're finished, click "Save your Preferences" to save everything.

Once set, check out the left column of your profile. You'll see a list of little icons for the sites you link to. Each icon links to your page at that particular site. Check out mathowie's profile for an example. He has links to his stuff at del.icio.us, digg, Last.fm, Twitter, etc.

If you want to remove a link to a site you've added, go back to editing your profile. Clear your username for the link you want to remove and click "Save your Preferences". The link won't show up on your profile anymore.

As with Flickr, we plan on pulling in your data from these other sites eventually where possible. First up will probably be your x latest del.icio.us links since it seems there's a bunch of MeFites using that. As with anything new and Web, there are probably a few bugs to be squashed. Post 'em if you got 'em.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:37:37 -0800

Yay!

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:41:35 -0800

What, no Fark? No LGF? No ratemycock.com?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:43:30 -0800

We'll be adding some note about this to the FAQ including how to get your real login name on Flickr etc. so if you notice anything that could use a little extra spelling out, please let us know. Props to LibraryThing for the good idea.

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:44:11 -0800

I've always thought you could tell an awful lot about a person by perusing his Amazon wish list, even if you don't intend to send them a gift.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:47:45 -0800

pb: "Flickr photos on profile pages went over well..."

Okay, it's nice that I can link to my Wikipedia username and whatnot, but I think the reason that Flickr went over so well is because you got extra content on your profile page and you got the all recent photos page.

Is it possible to get these same sort of things here? Recent music listened to by Mefites on Last.fm? Recent Twits?

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:47:46 -0800

Neato. Added a long list. I spend too much time on the net.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:47:53 -0800

Woohoo! Works fine for me.

This is as good a place as any that I was geeky enough to put a MeFi userbox on my Wikipedia userpage (self-link).

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:48:32 -0800

Very cool feature!

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:48:38 -0800

(Also, I was kinda hoping for what Plutor was asking for there...)

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:49:16 -0800

As with Flickr, we plan on pulling in your data from these other sites eventually where possible

Whoops, never mind.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:50:47 -0800

I guess since there's more than 11 services we may need to boost the "11 links max" option, huh?

By: Plutor

Plutor — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:52:46 -0800

Gah, thanks stavros. Replace my entire earlier comment with the following:

Wow, this is fantastic, pb. Thanks to you and Matt and Jess and cortex for putting up with users who don't RTFM and forget to say thanks. I'm looking forward to further developments in the exciting world of MeFi profile technology.

By: pb

pb — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:53:28 -0800

jessamyn, I'm pretty close but I don't have an account at every site listed in the menu. I bet that's going to be an edge case.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:58:02 -0800

I bet that's going to be an edge case.

Waaaah pb called me an edge case!!

Well, I have eleven now, though to be fair anything else I would add at this point would be sites that I don't really participate in. It might not be intuitive that once you have eleven you have to blank one out in order to add a new one. I saw the "11 sites max" when I was trying to add a 12th when I was added four at once, but once I went back to customize my user page, it wasn't immediately obvious why I couldn't add a 12th service (except that I remembered that it was 11 max). Maybe a little "you have reached the maximum" message?

By: pb

pb — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:00:22 -0800

oh, good point. And I meant edge case in the best possible sense.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:01:18 -0800

Thank you for making it easier for me to stalk everyone, pb. This is much good.

By: mullacc

mullacc — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:04:41 -0800

Cool, thanks.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:05:13 -0800

You don't have to go through your profile to edit preferences. Just click the link next to My Profile there at the top called Preferences.

Now, where do I heap all this praise? Heads up, pb!

By: Ufez Jones

Ufez Jones — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:08:22 -0800

Neat. Can we get SportsFilter included?

By: sciurus

sciurus — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:09:35 -0800

So for MySpace, do I put the MySpace URL or my username, or what?

By: Plutor

Plutor — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:09:39 -0800

pb: "I bet that's going to be an edge case."

Zero-One-Infinity rule

By: saturnine

saturnine — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:12:45 -0800

Ooh, I love the little icons, thank you for this!

By: sciurus

sciurus — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:13:15 -0800

Nevermind, I figured it out. Just the last bit of the MySpace URL. Can't figure out LinkedIn though.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:15:41 -0800

Beauty! Only a couple are places I actively participate but I've added some of the rest anyways. Not that I was all that hard to stalk anyways.

By: kindall

kindall — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:18:33 -0800

Needs reddit.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:20:00 -0800

Needs reddit, bad.

That, or remove the option for Digg. Because it sucks.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:31:40 -0800

While I don't care very much about this new feature set, I'm happy it exists, and also, I agree wholeheartedly that Digg sucks and reddit's not only better, but actually incomparable to Digg, which, as previously noted, sucks.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:35:16 -0800

Very nice, thanks!

By: kindall

kindall — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:37:10 -0800

I forgot to mention this is cool.

By: ALongDecember

ALongDecember — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:42:46 -0800

Facebook? I mean I guess most people are private, but at least you could friend someone. Or do only college kids use that.

Also, so everyone can see these links right, not just logged in users?

By: pb

pb — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:46:37 -0800

SportsFilter, Facebook, and some other service we'd like to add use numeric IDs in the URL or long alphanumeric strings. People don't generally know these numbers offhand. (And yes, this is the pot talking to the kettle.) So we just need to have some help documentation available for some of those services that tell people how to find those IDs. Until then, we've gone with the "easy" ones.

Thanks Plutor, but we are following the zero-one-infinity rule. We allow one set of up to 11 links.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:49:47 -0800

Tiny bug: The labels aren't linked quite right. The label for the Flickr field has for="aimname" instead of "flickrname". And the labels for the new fields have for="service_n" instead of "servicename_n".

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:50:25 -0800

I do like how we can rearrange the favicons by choosing which services are first and last.

I reiterate: Digg sucks so much it's like an electrified sucking machine. I can't even remember if I have an account there or not. Don't care, frankly.

But I don't begrudge it being in the options for this feature. I just like talking about how much Digg sucks.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:51:21 -0800

Dailymotion? Uses a username like youtube. Also, blogger. Also, thanks. Keep up the good work.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:56:42 -0800

"Digg sucks so much it's like an electrified sucking machine."

OK, OK, you've convinced me. I'll try it.

By: misha

misha — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:04:59 -0800

Thank you, pb! Now I have to join nine other social bookmarking sites to prove my worth, but it's all good.

By: misha

misha — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:05:34 -0800

Oh, and hey! Gamertags! Could maybe go there somewhere!

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:06:38 -0800

Woot! Now everyone can see how I have a 3-digit Slashdot userid too.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:07:50 -0800

reddit. reddit. reddit. reddit. reddit.

:)

By: ArgentCorvid

ArgentCorvid — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:09:45 -0800

oh w00t!!1

By: Stynxno

Stynxno — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:10:26 -0800

Please add Yelp.

By: melissa may

melissa may — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:13:59 -0800

Very neat -- thanks, pb. One thought: a privacy setting so that this information is restricted to other logged in members, as for our email addresses, would be a nice option to have.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:20:47 -0800

I knew it!

Bloody ace, anyway. Can't wait until stuff starts getting pulled in from the various also ons.

Vimeo might be a nice addition?

By: snsranch

snsranch — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:28:23 -0800

Ah, look at loquacious! I've never seen him so damn happy.

pb, you rock!

Am I the only one using stupid Photobucket? (flickr drops me because of my sporadic, seldom, occasional use.)

I've been avoiding myspace, but I guess this is a good excuse to fire it up.

Thanks!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:33:44 -0800

a privacy setting so that this information is restricted to other logged in members

If that's not too tough, that would be a really nice thing to have.

By: ALongDecember

ALongDecember — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:35:49 -0800

Oh, and the Furl icon is weird. See the real on on furl.net.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:46:51 -0800

Marvelous, love it, thank you so much. Any thoughts about adding Upcoming as an option?

By: cedar

cedar — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:46:57 -0800

My first impression was, "Crikey, not another social thing. Because, you know, I don't have enough friends that I can actually spend time with so I want create artificial ones via this fancy television/typewriter thingie I sit in front of all day."

Then I thought...

Oh wait, that was my last impression too.

By: Sailormom

Sailormom — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:55:46 -0800

Finally starting to get my five dollars worth! Thanks for this.

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:04:11 -0800

smackfu: "Woot! Now everyone can see how I have a 3-digit Slashdot userid too."

Oh Man. I thought I was cool with my five digit ./ id.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:05:26 -0800

That's cool but one suggestion: Instead of icons, just plain text links so a user doesn't have to scrub over small icons to figure out what the hell it is. Plus the icons just seem kinda thrown up there, layout wise.

By: emelenjr

emelenjr — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:06:16 -0800

How about Pandora?

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:09:03 -0800

"at other social sites"

MeFi is a social site? Are you sure it's not the other kind? You know, the direct and diametric opposite of social?

By: peacay

peacay — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:10:10 -0800

Great, thanks pb.
"This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently." {gnfti} That's what the internet is doing to me!

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:17:54 -0800

Eideteker has a point. Let's add some really antisocial sites.

By: Tuwa

Tuwa — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:20:29 -0800

More blogging services, please (Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type, etc.). (And are there many LiveJournallers here? I'd got the notion somehow it was mostly for goths and people aspiring to move out and show their parents how things are done.)

And yeah, privacy settings would be spifferiffic supercool (public/logged-in only/contacts only? or at least logged-in vs. public).

By: steef

steef — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:22:07 -0800

Demented and sad, but social. Thanks!

By: scottreynen

scottreynen — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:25:08 -0800

I think I just discoverd a bug. Clicking the following link seems to clear out any saved social sites: example.

By: Tuwa

Tuwa — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:26:53 -0800

Yep, that's a bug, and yes, it works.

By: deborah

deborah — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:34:40 -0800

Yay! And double yays for adding MetaChat!

Reminder pony: add Yahoo! IM to the IM section. Purdy please. With pancakes on top.

By: mattbucher

mattbucher — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:40:11 -0800

Maybe add Facebook, Blogger, and GoodReads?
Awesome overall, though I also can't figure out how to make LinkedIn work.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:06:08 -0800

I also can't figure out how to make LinkedIn work.

I'm not sure if this works for everyone, but if you go look at your public profile ID (you'll have to log in if you haven't already) it will show you your public profile URL and whatever is at the end is what you need to enter.

So mine is http://www.linkedin.com/in/jessamyn for example.

We're planning to add the other major IM services. There are a lot of livejournallers here. The blogging sites are a little difficult because the user id line is a bunch of numbers, so not as easy as entering your username as pb said above, but we're working on it.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:08:01 -0800

And are there many LiveJournallers here?

I've been on Livejournal longer than you've been on MetaFilter. In fact, I've been on LJ for longer than cortex has been on MetaFilter. Save your hatred for the cross-burning, Adolf. Most of the livejournallers I know are happier and more well-adjusted than the sort of cranks we keep around in this place.

By: jacalata

jacalata — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:10:43 -0800

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:21:24 -0800

Instead of icons, just plain text links so a user doesn't have to scrub over small icons to figure out what the hell it is. Plus the icons just seem kinda thrown up there, layout wise.

We got this idea from LibraryThing and I'm pretty sure they just list the names. If you thought 11 tiny icons look kinda thrown up there, you should see what a huge paragraph of service names all hyperlinked looks like (hint: it's worse). We shot for a solution that allows you to convey a lot of info in a small space, and favicons were the way to go.

More blogging services, please (Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type, etc.)

Blogger, Typepad, and MT don't have nice simple (guessable) user pages. The list of social services is a way to share your user page on other systems. Stuff like MT doesn't have that, so it's not listed.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:23:56 -0800

I'd love facebook, so I went to find my user id: if you go to your profile page, I assume that your user id is the string xxxx at the end - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=xxxxx
In my case this is 9 digits long, but I don't know if this is constant. Is this the sort of thing you need?

Aren't Facebook profiles only visible to people in your "network", who are also logged into Facebook (or even less people, if you set the privacy settings)? Doesn't really make sense to provide a way to link to them if no one is going to be able to see them.

By: bonaldi

bonaldi — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:25:56 -0800

Thanks Plutor, but we are following the zero-one-infinity rule. We allow one set of up to 11 links.
Is this a joke? I'm tired, so might be off.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:30:06 -0800

Facebook has "public profiles", that will show even to non-members. The URL looks like:

http://www.facebook.com/p/Ron_Paul/732025404

It's pretty worthless, and you need both the name and the # for it to work.

By: jacalata

jacalata — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:52:44 -0800

Hmm, that's true. If you use the profile link of someone you have no connection to, you see what you would in a search result (photo if available, plus option to add to friends or send message). I don't know if that's worth having or not.

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:54:08 -0800

I am so happy that pb, our real-life "Skippy" is aboard, making all this wonderful Web 2.0 stuff available to us. Thanks, pb and thanks, Matt for this latest shiny-coated pony! Who else remembers the old days, when Matt was being urged to purchase a RAID array to keep our archives readable 4-evah?

By: Tuwa

Tuwa — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:11:49 -0800

I've been on Livejournal longer than you've been on MetaFilter. In fact, I've been on LJ for longer than cortex has been on MetaFilter.

I've been on LJ longer than either I or cortex have been on Metafilter, too. And it's not hatred, more of an amused shrug about most of the journals I've run across there. No point in Godwinning the thread, though.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:20:10 -0800

This is cool if for no other reason than reminding me of the crap I've signed onto and never bothered going back. Apparently I recently joined StumbleUpon? 43Folders, wtf?

So, uh, thanks!

By: jejune

jejune — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:24:35 -0800

OKCupid! That would take care of this idea.

Also, if you're going to have LibraryThing, why not Shelfari?

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:33:48 -0800

I reiterate: Digg sucks so much it's like an electrified sucking machine.

OK, that's just stupid. Digg is fine and quite useful, if, as applies to most sites other than Metafilter, you stay out of the comment threads, which will suck your brain straight out your ass before you can say 'Henry Kissinger'.

Me, I think reddit sucks. What are ya gonna do, cry?

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:35:02 -0800

Any chance Picasa Web Albums could get some love? It's better than Flickr.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:35:22 -0800

Note: please do not cry, or I'll feel bad.

By: tehloki

tehloki — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:50:17 -0800

*weeps openly*

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:57:13 -0800

Whoops.

By: pb

pb — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:58:41 -0800

thanks scottreynen, fixed.

By: pb

pb — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:05:33 -0800

Keep in mind you can always link to stuff like your Facebook profile using good old-fashioned HTML inside your "Blurb about you". Not as much fun as a tiny icon, but it would work to let others know you have a profile there.

By: dg

dg — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:39:59 -0800

*points and laughs at tehloki*

Not that it matters, because there's nothing there, but one of my Vox links throws up an error when clicked on from my profile:

Firefox can't find the server at d%2dg.vox.com.

. The address should be d-g.vox.com, which is what shows in the status bar when I hover over the icon.

No big deal, of course, but maybe a bug that will affect others as well?

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:41:51 -0800

MeFi Profiles: The Stalkenator!

By: soundofsuburbia

soundofsuburbia — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:50:16 -0800

Very, very, very cool!

By: flashboy

flashboy — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:03:15 -0800

Not wishing to turn this into a thing where we just list every web 2.0 startup and then say "pleeeeease" over and over, but... could we get some Trusted Places as well? Not one of the biggies yet, but it's got good crossover with plenty of AskMe/TravelFilter stuff, so could be useful.

By: flashboy

flashboy — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:03:48 -0800

Also, this is an excellent feature- thanks!

By: Aidan Kehoe

Aidan Kehoe — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:12:30 -0800

Bug; links to Wikipedia userpages are only possible for the English-language Wikipedia, as far as I can work out.

/me is also an edge case.

By: adrianhon

adrianhon — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:58:14 -0800

BTW, the Flickr thing has never worked for me. I don't really understand why - my username on Flickr is adrianhon and that's what I typed into the box. Oh well.

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:21:14 -0800

Agree with Plutor. It'd be neat if this actually aggregated recent comment as the Flickr photos does.

Also, would like to see Upcoming added to the list.

Also, I contend that the ability to add profile photos to our userpages would reduce snarking by about 7% on the site.

By: slater

slater — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:53:44 -0800

May we have custom CSS files back, now? :)

By: jejune

jejune — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:06:38 -0800

BTW, the Flickr thing has never worked for me. I don't really understand why - my username on Flickr is adrianhon and that's what I typed into the box. Oh well.

Try adding a space: Adrian Hon. I don't know why the actual username doesn't work, but that's been my experience.

By: inigo2

inigo2 — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:12:40 -0800

Seconding the Picasa request. They've got a fancy api and everything to get the latest 5 (or whatever) pictures, or latest album name, or whatever!

By: pb

pb — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:45:06 -0800

adrianhon, try this. We'll add this to the planned FAQ entry for finding your username/ID at other sites.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:45:16 -0800

I think it would be really sensible to have users opt for "show to non-Metafilter members too" per site, via a checkbox.

For example, John A. Mefite might want to share his del.icio.us bookmarks with the world, but his OKcupid profile only with Mefites.

By: adamrice

adamrice — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:38:22 -0800

As long as we're mentioning other services to add, I'll mention Tribe.net (logical user-page URLs in the form of people.tribe.net/username )

By: quin

quin — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:37:28 -0800

Nifty, thanks pb.

snsranch : Am I the only one using stupid Photobucket?

Nope, I use it as well.

I've been avoiding myspace, but I guess this is a good excuse to fire it up.

No, myspace is the devil. Try virb instead.

By: thatwhichfalls

thatwhichfalls — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:19:56 -0800

Very nice. Any chance of adding BlinkList?

By: ODiV

ODiV — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:20:29 -0800

Can we get an msn messenger field? We Canadians are pretty big on it.

By: deborah

deborah — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:11:33 -0800

Can we get an msn messenger field? We Canadians are pretty big on it.

Not until I get my Yahoo! IM field 'cause I asked first! Nyah nyah nyah!

By: matildaben

matildaben — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:18:32 -0800

Yay, thanks! You've reminded me of some services that I have accounts on that I haven't really maintained lately. I guess I'm not truly Web 2.0 compliant. Having somewhat of a life can do that to a person, I guess.

By: pb

pb — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:21:41 -0800

Quick update: you can set your social app links to be visible for "members only" or "everyone".

And now the profile editing page submits to itself and redirects to the profile page when you're finished. This will close up problems like the one scottreynen pointed to, and I think it makes more sense than the old page devoted to saying "Your changes have been submitted."

By: matildaben

matildaben — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:22:37 -0800

P.S. Although now everyone can see that the last bunch of bookmarks I added to del.icio.us are for plus-size lingerie shops. Kind of embarrassing. Yeah, I got a new boyfriend -- wanna make something of it?

By: snsranch

snsranch — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:49:31 -0800

Hey, thanks quin.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:42:21 -0800

Thanks for adding metachat. That's appreciated.

By: mumkin

mumkin — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:48:41 -0800

Howzabout adding weendure.com, where 52 mefites are currently rolling in the MeFi Cycling Challenge? The URL format is an intuitive www.weendure.com/user/username.

By: kindall

kindall — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:28:20 -0800

Yay, reddit!

By: roll truck roll

roll truck roll — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:50:39 -0800

Yay!

In addition to the other sites people have mentioned, I'd love to see Sonicliving. Maybe Bookcrossing too, or is it pretty much dead?

By: carsonb

carsonb — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:20:55 -0800

Redirecting to the userpage after changes made? Slick glowing/fading "Changes Saved" box at the top? Holy shit that's awesome! I was always frustrated that I had to click a link (and it was the last option out of three given) to see my userpage after I changed something.

Thank you!

By: bluefly

bluefly — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:27:08 -0800

I think the only "social site" I use besides this one is Pandora. can you add that one?

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:26:48 -0800

Give an inch, and they want a mile.

By: yeoz

yeoz — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:31:22 -0800

Hmm. Now I need to sign up for each and everyone of those services.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:33:08 -0800

Don't sign up for more than eleven. Ours only goes to eleven.

By: box

box — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:48:07 -0800

Bloglines would be a nice add, I think.

By: sveskemus

sveskemus — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:01:23 -0800

Cool. I'd love to be able to add my Jaiku, though.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:54:52 -0800

In lieu of posting this as a new question to MeTa,

Is there a way we might be able to produce lists of MeFi users by also one classification? i.e. all MeFi flickrers?

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:06:52 -0800

sorry, by "also on" classification

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:16:24 -0800

It's in the works, AV. I have seen a test in action, but that page is a secret that would kill a person without the proper authorization were they to attempt to load it.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:08:17 -0800

Hmm. Now I need to sign up for each and everyone of those services.

Good luck... some of them are in closed private beta.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:35:11 -0800

Thanks, doll. You're making my day ten ways to sunday, aren'tcha?

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:25:47 -0800

Let it never be said that I am not dope.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:19:28 -0800

Yeah, I would have taken one of those hugs you gave out a while ago if not for the fact that you're a total pimp and I'm still not sure if that's 100% free from its literal origin, and if not, what implicit contractual obligation or pimplike power to turn out by touch such a hug might carry, in these mean metaphorical metafilter streets.

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:28:32 -0800

Any chance of getting Xbox Live and Wii support?

By: timepiece

timepiece — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:05:31 -0800

Hah. I just finished making my own text-link "Also on" list in my profile in the past week. I left the ones that aren't in the list.

And you should see the stack of badges (service-provided and self- created - including MeFi) on my page.

By: fnord

fnord — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:59:58 -0800

Smugmug? Any possibility?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:47:49 -0800

I set up a page on the MeFi Wiki. If people can list the sites they'd like to see and also an example of what a profile page/user page URL looks like, that would be helpful. The main page of the wiki explains what you need to do to be able to edit it.

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:25:44 -0800

Since there's no page support for Wii and DS Friend Codes, would it be possible to have the icons reveal said codes on mouse over?

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:02:31 -0800

Second the request for Wii codes.

By: quin

quin — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:30:13 -0800

would it be possible to have the icons reveal said codes on mouse over?

That would be pretty slick.

By: MadamM

MadamM — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:54:07 -0800

facebook? And also, that glowing flashing changes saved box is slick.

By: prostyle

prostyle — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:58:34 -0800

I would like to see a few additions, primarily a search function to view all the users who have chosen to associate with specific services.

I'd also like to see the AIM/ICQ/Flickr section of the profile condensed into the Social Networking pane if possible, I'm not sure I perceive a distinction there.

Another vote for Xbox/Wii codes, although I see they are now represented in the Wiki.