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What's in your profile?

MeFites are one of the most consistently interesting groups in which I am allowed to hang out. Some MeFites write or have written books. Hook us up, wouldja? And, in general, I like to check out profiles and am always happy to find links to blogs, updated or not, music, articles, stories, whatever stuff ends up there. Please consider populating your profile. p.s. There's no fact-checking. [more inside]
posted by theora55 on Sep 3, 2021 - 32 comments

Profile tags pony?

MeFi user profiles show a user's most used tags for the Blue and the Green. Could we find a way to add, and would other users be interested in adding, FanFare and maybe MeTa tags to that, too?
posted by hanov3r on Feb 23, 2021 - 5 comments

Personally named pony

Is there a way to make the name portion of the profile available to logged in members only? [more inside]
posted by sardonyx on Jan 28, 2020 - 25 comments

Updating profiles

Okay, this is totally stupid but it keeps bothering me. I have a lot of trouble updating my profile picture. [more inside]
posted by 80 Cats in a Dog Suit on Oct 12, 2019 - 25 comments

“Status” is not the same as “Relationship Status”

When you edit your profile, you get a nice free-form field for your “Relationship Status”. On your profile, it is listed as “Status”. (All other fields are described with identical language on both pages.)This has driven my pedantic self nuts for ages. Would it be possible to update the “edit profile” page so that it just asks for “Status”? Or, if we want to be wordy, for your “Status (Personal/Relationship/Whatever)”?
posted by Going To Maine on May 7, 2018 - 10 comments

Adding mltshp and Ravelry support to profile page Social Apps

We're celebrating the launch of mltshp by adding it to the Social Apps options on profile pages (and deprecating mlkshk). While we're at it, we're also adding Ravelry support finally. Details inside! [more inside]
posted by cortex on May 18, 2017 - 28 comments

Making room for pronouns on the profile page

We've decided to move forward on an idea that's come up in MetaTalk previously: adding an explicit spot for pronouns on MeFi user profile pages. It's a small change: we've tweaked the free-form "Gender" field to "Gender and/or pronouns". [more inside]
posted by cortex on May 15, 2017 - 111 comments

Go on, spill it.

Everyone is most likely familiar with the Profile page's "About" section explanatory text: "What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say 'wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?' Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.' I am curious if anybody's user name actually WAS inspired by an email from a long-lost friend. [more inside]
posted by Celsius1414 on May 2, 2016 - 116 comments

MetaFilter's increased public profile

In an article published by the Guardian's executive editor for audience today, MetaFilter is mentioned in the same breath as Facebook and Twitter as an example of a website which 'provide[s] spaces for different kinds of communities to gather', despite having only a fraction of the membership and the traffic of those two sites. This is just the most recent example of how MetaFilter seems to me to be enjoying a greater public profile as of late. Is this so (or am I just imagining it)? If so, why? Can the staff or other users shed any light?
posted by Panthalassa on Apr 9, 2016 - 71 comments

Two new profile pages options available

We’re rolling out a couple of new profile preferences options today: the ability to make the “Contributions” and “Social” segments of your profile page visible only to logged-in members, and the ability to enter your geographic coordinates but have them not be visible to anyone else. Come on in for some details! [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jan 25, 2016 - 94 comments

IRL Regional Event Alerts

Today we added the ability to make an IRL event regional so that IRL alerts for the event go out to a wider audience. And now in addition to letting us know what distance you consider nearby, you can let us know what distance you consider regional. [more inside]
posted by pb on Jan 15, 2016 - 95 comments

Metafilter Chat Feature Request

Would it be possible to have a link to the profile pages of the members in the chat room? Perhaps as an additional choice when you right-click their name from the list on the righthand sidebar? (alongside "ignore" and "private chat") [more inside]
posted by chambers on Nov 24, 2015 - 11 comments

A pony of many genders

Would it be possible to put a place for preferred pronouns in the profile? [more inside]
posted by Too-Ticky on Aug 1, 2015 - 69 comments

Treat member's websites as external links?

I have my preferences set to open links in a new window, but if I click on a user's website from their Profile page, the site opens in the same window. Is it possible to get those links to act like other external links? Is there a downside to changing it that I'm not seeing?
posted by jaguar on Apr 22, 2015 - 13 comments

Keeping Offsite Offsite

Metafilter as a general policy does not consider offsite behavior from the moderator perspective unless it is something ridiculously egregious. If you want to talk trash on a user here over on Reddit, more power to you. I think that's kind of jerky if you make a habit out of it, but whatever. People need an outlet. This is not in general a bad policy at all. I like that I can be more free wheeling with my commentary elsewhere without it potentially souring my relationship with this community. So in general, there is a firewall between offsite and onsite behavior and the potential for mod involvement. We've had debates about to what degree that should be the case in the past, but I think the consensus has been pretty clear that this is the right way to go so I don't really want to re-fight that battle. [more inside]
posted by Drinky Die on Mar 12, 2015 - 150 comments

MeFi Cross Stitch Samplers?

So I was on my profile page, and accidentally hit the "Pin It" button on my browser. The Pinterest window that popped up suggested just one rather surprising image to pin. [more inside]
posted by Kabanos on Feb 5, 2015 - 23 comments

Profile Links on Mobile Devices

The number of times I've intentionally tapped the profile link of a thread poster on my phone: 0. The number of times I've accidentally tapped the profile link of a thread poster on my phone: an embarrassing amount, uncountable in modern number theory. Can we do something about that? [more inside]
posted by tocts on Dec 13, 2014 - 19 comments

Duolingo Friend List Expansion Thread

Someone suggested in the foreign language thread on the Blue that we have a Duolingo username exchange thread, so I thought I'd bell the cat. [more inside]
posted by Elementary Penguin on Aug 22, 2013 - 136 comments

New profile "also on" updates: Strava, Steepster, Newsblur, [more]

MeFi cyclists/runners: your Strava account, if you have one, is now linkable in the "Also On:" section of your profile. In this same update it looks like pb has also added: Steepster, Newsblur, Hacker News, ResearcherID, ResearchGate, and eBay (any others, pb?). Related link: MeFi Social Explorer (for finding other users with profiles on growing list of linkable communities). [more inside]
posted by jjjjjjjijjjjjjj on Jun 3, 2013 - 50 comments

A well-read pony

In this thread, there was discussion of creating a Goodreads widget, but nothing ever came of it. Is it still possible? [more inside]
posted by mokin on Jun 2, 2013 - 7 comments

Archive of Our Own profile widget?

It has lately come to my attention that there are several people here who are interested in creating and consuming fanworks. How would the mods - and the community at large - feel about adding an Archive of Our Own widget to the Social Apps part of the profile? They seem to exist at least to some extent because they are available on Dreamwidth (see my profile).
posted by capricorn on Jun 2, 2013 - 18 comments

Meta-Meta-Nitpicking

Is it time to update the "About" section of the Profile pages?
What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.
Certainly we oldsters can remember the advent of the internet, and there was a time when we may have thought it was for freaks. But for many you may as well ask "When did you first use electricity?" [more inside]
posted by The Deej on Feb 14, 2013 - 120 comments

Reminder: Please update your Mefi contact email if it's getting moldy

This is just a PSA to remind you that we use the email you have attached to your account to answer contact emails from you (unless you change it manually in the email field on the contact page), and sometimes to get in touch with you if there is a problem with a post or comment, so please make sure that it is a working address. You can change or update your email in your profile preferences under "Contact Preferences," as well as choose whether you want it to be visible to other users, and if you want Mefi mail forwarded to your email. [more inside]
posted by taz on Jan 18, 2013 - 39 comments

Is Twitter on profile pages broken?

Is the Twitter section of the personal profiles broken for everyone, or just me? If it's for everyone, maybe the time has come to eliminate it rather than try to keep it working.
posted by tommasz on Dec 18, 2012 - 40 comments

A little iOS love in the user profile

Seeing the thread on letterpress, I thought to seek out other MeFites and also let them know how to find me in GameCenter. We have a thread here about this, but I would like to request a pony in the form of adding GameCenter to the Social Apps section of the user profile. Please?
posted by drfu on Oct 26, 2012 - 66 comments

HTML buttons on Edit Profile Page?

Small feature request: Can we have B, I and Link buttons in the Personal Info portion of the Edit Profile Page? It would make it slightly easier to edit that section.
posted by Brandon Blatcher on Oct 26, 2012 - 28 comments

spread the jam

Super minor pony request: the option to add a This Is My Jam updating widget to profiles? [more inside]
posted by ifjuly on Aug 29, 2012 - 22 comments

Interesting Profiles?

Is there a good collection of recent interesting/informative mefite profiles? If not can you all suggest some to me? [more inside]
posted by Wretch729 on Jul 30, 2012 - 28 comments

Anyone home?

Feature request: "last active on:" or "active member" field on user profile page [more inside]
posted by theodolite on Jul 6, 2012 - 53 comments

BTW: I am a cat

Geneva Uswazi's profile made me crack up.
posted by The Whelk on Mar 16, 2012 - 78 comments

Who me?

Please make profile pictures bigger when clicked. [more inside]
posted by cjorgensen on Mar 11, 2012 - 114 comments

Mefi Medals

Simple post: Metafilter achievements/badges/Mefi medals would be amusing. Is there any likelihood they'll ever happen/ideas on what people would like? [more inside]
posted by jaduncan on Feb 28, 2012 - 65 comments

Looking for Superman

Looking for a MeFi user profile with detailed post ideas posted in the "About" section. [more inside]
posted by reenum on Jan 13, 2012 - 4 comments

A font of knowledge

If you've changed the default fonts on your profile, what have you changed them to? [more inside]
posted by crunchland on Jan 12, 2012 - 89 comments

Cyclone Taylor

I'm curious as to when/why the 'I was a backtagging superstar!' was removed from profiles.
posted by unliteral on Nov 29, 2011 - 79 comments

Profile page image self destructing

Second profile picture this week showing pixellation or blurring of some sort across the bottom about 8mm in height. [more inside]
posted by infini on Oct 23, 2011 - 19 comments

I know where you're coming from

Feature request for profiles: phone numbers. [more inside]
posted by curious nu on Sep 11, 2011 - 191 comments

We all know Deezil has an awesome profile.. who else?

What are some really cool mefite profiles? [more inside]
posted by royalsong on Aug 8, 2011 - 38 comments

LIbraryThing Widget

The LibraryThing widget is pulling random books from your LibraryThing account. Since Twitter and Last.fm and many of the others seem to default to most recent, it seems like the LibraryThing widget should pull your most recent books too, just to be consistent.
posted by COD on Jul 1, 2011 - 25 comments

Can I tell you how old I am but not my birthday?

Is it (or would it be) possible for users to share our correct ages on our profiles without displaying our entire dates of birth there? [more inside]
posted by two or three cars parked under the stars on May 29, 2011 - 82 comments

Shake It, Baby!

Would it be possible to add Mlkshk to the list of social apps we can add to our profiles? No rush, obvs. Thank you in advance for looking at this shaken, but not stirred pony!
posted by zarq on Apr 26, 2011 - 42 comments

ponyrequestfuckyeah.tumblr.com

Could we please add tumblr to the list of social app links that we can display on our profiles? tia
posted by jason's_planet on Mar 13, 2011 - 56 comments

Roma Pony

Is there anyway we can add Rotten Tomatoes to the list of social apps on our profiles?
posted by IvoShandor on Mar 9, 2011 - 3 comments

If you can read this...

Low-priority pony: mobile stylesheet for profile pages? [more inside]
posted by ctmf on Mar 7, 2011 - 6 comments

Also on PRX

Searched high and low, and couldn't find it on MeTa or the Wiki: Is there a list of all PRX user profiles linked to MeFi profiles, like there is for recent tweets by MeFites or lists for some of the other social apps?
posted by l33tpolicywonk on Feb 14, 2011 - 14 comments

Coming soon to a city near you?

Would it be possible to make the "location" section a link to a list of MeFites nearby? [more inside]
posted by karminai on Feb 5, 2011 - 39 comments

Request: Smugmug option in profile

Request: Would it be possible to add Smugmug to the profile "also on" list?
posted by kdern on Jan 9, 2011 - 31 comments

Wot? My thread got secreted!

It's a little ironic that my MeFi post on the supposed Julian Assange OkCupid profile has been censored. [more inside]
posted by dougrayrankin on Dec 12, 2010 - 98 comments

Who the hell are you people?

I like to know things. I like to know things about people. I especially like to know things about people who I interact with online. It bums me right out that it seems so few newer members take the time, or wish to, fill out anything in their profile. Is there any way to encourage this? [more inside]
posted by FlamingBore on Dec 10, 2010 - 97 comments

I can has donkey?

Why isn't "status" an open text field, too? [more inside]
posted by two lights above the sea on Dec 7, 2010 - 173 comments

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