Same account, two different browsers - my Theme preference isn't respected in both browsers. I like this "feature," so I'm just mentioning it - not requesting a change.
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posted by PCup
on Nov 2, 2012 -
20 comments
Super minor pony request: the option to add a This Is My Jam updating widget to profiles?
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posted by ifjuly
on Aug 29, 2012 -
22 comments
Is there a good collection of
recent interesting/informative mefite profiles? If not can you all suggest some to me?
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posted by Wretch729
on Jul 30, 2012 -
31 comments
Pony request: Add Google+ to the Social Apps list in profiles?
posted by Jacqueline
on Jun 30, 2011 -
262 comments
Pony Request: Adding Health Month to the external profiles one can add to their profile.
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posted by WCityMike
on Mar 5, 2011 -
6 comments
Are MeFi profiles crawled by search engines? I remember reading that they weren't, but I just googled my real name and found my MeFi profile.
posted by defenestration
on Feb 22, 2011 -
101 comments
Should we update the 'About' prompt on the profile page? It still asks when the first time you used the internet was. At this point it's kind of like asking when the first time you watched TV was.
posted by empath
on Jan 19, 2011 -
163 comments
I find that
Mutant's profile is full of useful information, about himself and his areas of expertise. Do you guys know of any other profiles with useful and interesting information, particularly about specialty subjects?
posted by By The Grace of God
on Aug 17, 2010 -
70 comments
When an account is disabled, all the profile information disappears. Might it be better to preserve the information when the account is disabled due to the owner's death?
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posted by Faint of Butt
on Jul 16, 2009 -
83 comments
Greasemonkey: here's a
script that displays profile pics next to posts.
Cortex warned me some people will hate it and want to roast me alive. To those people, let me suggest a side dish of Potatoes au Gratin and a glass of Merlot.
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posted by grumblebee
on Oct 23, 2008 -
228 comments
Can we add muxtape as a social service for the profiles? I bet a lot of mefites muxtapes up.
posted by empath
on Aug 13, 2008 -
29 comments
Are there any Mefi user accounts that have a coincidental (or intentional) relationship with their user number?
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posted by Rhaomi
on Jul 19, 2008 -
117 comments
In your preferences, if you select a month and year for your birthday, but not a specific day of the month, you get an error message. Could that be changed so you have the option to fill in only the month/year?
posted by BuddhaInABucket
on Jun 8, 2008 -
97 comments
My
profile is showing my "last" Twitter status as an update posted two months ago. I've made plenty of updates since then...
posted by Mwongozi
on May 7, 2008 -
59 comments
We have a "joined" date in user profiles. Can we have a "left" date for the pushers of the big red button?
posted by nevercalm
on Mar 3, 2008 -
98 comments
In a large and steadily-growing community, and possibly because I'm getting old and stuff, I find myself having trouble sometimes remembering who said what, especially when it's a newer user. So, a possibly small and easy-to-implement feature request.
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posted by stavrosthewonderchicken
on Feb 14, 2008 -
21 comments
Minor usability quibble: When you're looking at who favorites a post, and click a username, it shows their favorites instead of showing their profile page, like every other linked username on the site does. Maybe a different link to show their favorites from that page?
posted by empath
on Jan 18, 2008 -
18 comments
Fields in user profiles used to have a different color background if they contained information only visible to logged in community members. Can we have this back please?
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posted by grouse
on Dec 16, 2007 -
23 comments
I would like an opt-out of viewing profile pictures. I use the plain template at work, and the images, while usually SFW, are really, um, attention-grabbing.
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posted by desjardins
on Nov 13, 2007 -
18 comments
Last.fm pony please: I'd like to embed the "Recently Listened" (or similar) chart into my profile, much like the flickr photo scroll.
(Alternately, if someone knows how to do that now, I'd appreciate it).
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posted by klangklangston
on Sep 29, 2007 -
9 comments
We have a fandom post feature now, which of course is excellent. Now how about a random
user feature? It could be called 'Get to Know A MeFite' or something like that. I think there are a lot of interesting user profile pages which many people have not and may not ever see, which is a shame, and this would be a potential way to highlight some of them. As an added bonus, this feature could lead to more Metafilter meet-ups as people stumble upon other users who they may not have known lived so close by. It could also lead people to explore their randomly chosen MeFite's posting history which may, in turn, lead many to discover several excellent (and awful) posts, questions and MeTa screeds which they may never have come across before.
posted by Effigy2000
on Sep 3, 2007 -
48 comments
I had this idea when encountering the problem of wanting to contact a metafilter member of their public facing email address not being filled in...
How about doing what PayPal, banks and universities do - they present a user on login with a page which they click 'confirm' on to get to the usual start page. On the confirm page would be form fields with the information metafilter currently has for them:
lat, lon
flickr ID
email address
URL
etc
it would give them a chance to update it (and the email address field would have some *decent* obfuscation, either images ala Facebook or the current SOTA JavaScript).
I think often the reason this isn't filled in isn't out of choice it's because the user in question simply hasn't got around to it, doesn't know he/she has a profile or hasn't changed it since they first enrolled.
What say you? I don't think doing this would cheese people off and I think it would really be a boon for the site.
posted by dance
on Aug 11, 2007 -
62 comments
I imagine that some of my fellow mefites, collectors of the Best of the Web, would have great del.icio.us accounts for me to pick through. I'm not getting enough use out of their networking feature, either. Link your profiles!
Here's me.
posted by tylermoody
on Aug 1, 2007 -
118 comments
Is there room for personal preference in the "users close to you box"?
posted by dame
on Jul 16, 2007 -
53 comments
I once found (and bookmarked)
this page of all of chococat's music. I like it because it has the little flash player, so I can listen to all of his tunes. How do I get to the same kind of page for other MeFi Musicians? I've tried looking on members' profile pages, but the link to all of their songs goes to the music parts of their Activity pages. Thanks.
posted by bluefly
on Jul 10, 2007 -
11 comments
Please to put an email in your profile? Most of us don't bite, really. Okay, sure - if your "persona" here is attack-nerd or something, and you're sure you'll get spammed with hate mail, leave it out, but if you're a regular user who likes to participate, can't you at least set up a throwaway webmail address (in gmail, for one, you can create a filter to forward your messages to your regular mail, and you won't even have to log in to your account to check if you have any new messages).
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posted by taz
on Jun 15, 2007 -
167 comments
I don't know if the 'Activity' link on the profile page is still a work in progress. But, if so, how about adding a little bit of context to the Favorited tab?
It's not very useful with just a couple of lines from the post and a date.
posted by BigSky
on May 23, 2007 -
1 comment
Minor feature add: you can set your flickr username in your account, and it will automatically grab your last six photos uploaded and add them to your userpage.
posted by mathowie
on May 23, 2007 -
216 comments
I added a new feature: Custom CSS for profile pages. You simply create a .css file on your own server, write whatever CSS you want, and it will load after all the mefi CSS when anyone views your user page.
Here's mine (which loads
this). Just plop in the URL of your custom CSS file on your server in your user prefs.
Be sure to post here when you've got something cool to show. Let the ugliness/coolness begin!
posted by mathowie
on Apr 14, 2007 -
188 comments
