What are some great profile pages?

January 19, 2003 1:43 PM

vacapinta's extraordinary user page sadly no longer seems to be updated - any other user page treats I'm missing out on?
posted by gravelshoes to MetaFilter-Related at 1:43 PM (31 comments total)

Riffola of course is the fount of all mefi knowledge, Languagehat has some curiosities, hama7 gets a bit political, and madajujujive has some nice user sites. what else is out there?
posted by gravelshoes at 1:44 PM on January 19, 2003

"Look what quonsar just posted."

And dgaicun's profile is pretty clever, with comments enabled to let him know what you think of him.
posted by hama7 at 3:37 PM on January 19, 2003

But I have bacon. Nyah.
posted by adampsyche at 3:45 PM on January 19, 2003

Better make that here. Sheesh, I went and posted back to this page. Attention deficit what?
posted by adampsyche at 3:46 PM on January 19, 2003

I keep a few links on mine, but I don't update it all that often anymore.
posted by Nothing at 7:09 PM on January 19, 2003

Thanks gravelshoes, lucien also has a nice set of MeFi related links on his page.
posted by riffola at 8:26 PM on January 19, 2003

jessamyn used to have a cool user page, if memory serves - CSS'd all orange with a drawing of a woman dancing. but it's not that way anymore. :(
posted by epersonae at 9:08 PM on January 19, 2003

I was inspired to do something about mine because sawks had a good user page, I had CSS trickery too for a while, but then I was bored and came up with the linkorama concept.
posted by riffola at 9:17 PM on January 19, 2003

yep, mine looked like hell with the plain text style so I nixed it.
posted by jessamyn at 10:33 PM on January 19, 2003

I was bored and came up with the linkorama concept.

Great concept! It's the Metafilter Information and Users Manual that you've created there, and I, for one, am glad you did.
posted by hama7 at 10:39 PM on January 19, 2003

vacapinta's extraordinary user page sadly no longer seems to be updated

Thank you gravelshoes.

I did do two more posts after I left. They are linked here.

Ive been meaning to update my userpage and I will do so soon for those that are actually interested. Meanwhile, you can partially blame this man's addictive game for my absence.
posted by vacapinta at 1:23 AM on January 20, 2003

I was going to add Danelope's profile, but we seem to have lost him.
posted by hama7 at 2:15 AM on January 20, 2003

You might find ZachsMind interesting too.
posted by Tarrama at 3:43 AM on January 20, 2003

I really must do better.
posted by nthdegx at 5:49 AM on January 20, 2003

Donation for riffola's userpage. It's very purty.
posted by iconomy at 8:56 AM on January 20, 2003

iconomy - that rocks. Where'd you find it?
posted by jonson at 9:03 AM on January 20, 2003

Ooooh, iconomy--that blue is peaceful! Might limit flaming...
posted by Shane at 9:15 AM on January 20, 2003

Googling for something else entirely, (I wanted to get the url to a site I had mentioned), and that popped up in the results. I hope it was ok to link to it. Of course, I should have thought of that before...
posted by iconomy at 9:16 AM on January 20, 2003

I didn't realize it was OK to use our userpages as personal pseudoweblogs (as vacapinta seems to have done.) not that I'm complaining -- actually it could be an interesting brand extension/revenue stream for Matt: MeFi blogs.
posted by me3dia at 9:22 AM on January 20, 2003

internook used to iframe his blog in his user page, but it's broken now.
posted by timeistight at 9:29 AM on January 20, 2003

dejah420 has her blog on her user page - it's very worth visiting to ferret out pix of her pretty new baby, "The Boy" - scroll on down to 12/26. 12/20 and 12/8.
posted by madamjujujive at 10:02 AM on January 20, 2003

I'll see her son, I raise her one granddaughter.
posted by timeistight at 10:21 AM on January 20, 2003

(Arg: comma splice.)
posted by timeistight at 10:22 AM on January 20, 2003

Very cute grandaughter, timeistight, very cute indeed - between her and "the boy," we may be looking at the Mefi user class of 114,000.

gravelshoes, thanks for the shoutout, btw. And hama7, don't be fooled by that *picture* of me on quonsar's page. What a kidder that boy is! Everyone knows I don't look anything like that anymore since my diet.
posted by madamjujujive at 11:20 AM on January 20, 2003

Which of the two guys were you then madamjujujive? Just curious. heh.
posted by ginz at 11:29 AM on January 20, 2003

why ginz, I was the pretty one! sheesh.
posted by madamjujujive at 11:47 AM on January 20, 2003

gulp :-D
posted by ginz at 12:01 PM on January 20, 2003

there's an interesting grey area between user page and blog - they obviously have to stick to pretty strict limitations to avoid putting uneccesary pressure on resources and undermining the site, and I think I like them best when they work just with the text and mefi blue and give an extra bit of spin to the site as a whole. having said that, and as much as I love vacapinta's secret treasure chest, I'm not sure I wouldn't rather have seen them on the front page.

complete lack of action on mine. I really must do better too.

and aiee!! congratulations on the diet madamjujujive - please don't hesitate to get in touch anytime you need help making future mefites. I offer my services purely for the good of the site you understand...
posted by gravelshoes at 12:03 PM on January 20, 2003

For anyone concerned about how far they should go with their user page, here's the word from number one.
posted by timeistight at 12:17 PM on January 20, 2003

Thanks timeistight, I have been trying to remember where I copied the "iframe your personal site on your user page" idea from.
posted by dg at 2:09 PM on January 20, 2003

Does anyone else suddenly have an inbox full of Nigerian money spam with MetaFilter username since this thread?
posted by hama7 at 8:54 PM on January 20, 2003