Timeline for Two new user pages?
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| Sep 24, 2015 at 14:58 | comment | added | jeq | Link appears to be dead. Try blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/04/… | |
| Apr 20, 2015 at 11:29 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | @quid Thanks for your advice. | |
| Apr 20, 2015 at 10:55 | comment | added | user9072 | For reference: the proposal that which page one gets shown should be user-selectable was raised and declined, yet with the add-on it might be revisited. (A reasoning might be to wait and to see how many actually click through to the other page/tab.) Anyway, this behavior, if desired, can be achieved easily with a user-script, too. Linked on the linked post. | |
| Apr 20, 2015 at 7:28 | comment | added | user9072 | @ToddTrimble why not explain, perhaps at a more appropriate place, how exactly you think it should be an option (per site, per user what they show, per user what they see, still something else). With specific proposals one can hope for modifications, with just saying "seriously ugly" rather not. | |
| Apr 20, 2015 at 0:38 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | @quid I know about "About Me". My point is that the new design is putting the fluff front and center on the default page, and that I personally prefer having everything consolidated on a single user page, and that that should be an option. (The way I use user pages, aside from moderator activities, is somewhat along the lines of what they predict I won't be interested in: stuff on users' activity pages (past questions, answers, comments mainly). Not interested much in personal stuff which used to be unobtrusively off to the side, and that I now must click past to get what I really want.) | |
| Apr 20, 2015 at 0:26 | comment | added | user9072 | @ToddTrimble that part seems to refer to the "about me" that existed always. (The sole change being that it is now top-center rather then top-right and perhaps it's very slightly larger.) Everybody can and always could write everything there (as long as it is not offensive). To me explanation is a completely generic way of saying "write whatever you like there" (the expl. must make sense for 100+ sites); but example-text seems except for three/four words completely about the subject of the respective site. Anyway, in practice, the existing texts would be shown before and after the change. | |
| Apr 19, 2015 at 23:39 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | @quid I read encouragement towards that direction on the blog post: "The Profile Page lets you show others a summary of what you’re all about. Share your interests, favorite charities, or your Twitter, Github, and SO Careers activity." See also the illustrative page of Tambo which lists her music interests, what she's currently learning, etc. This is the kind of fluff that I expect many MO users are not interested in -- we come here for the mathematics, not to check up on personal interests (which is apparently supposed to be a point of attraction for the default page). | |
| Apr 19, 2015 at 23:06 | comment | added | user9072 | @ToddTrimble I didn't mean to assign any guilt, I mainly meant to point out that it was and is possible to influence how the profile pages look. I feel a mountain is made out of a mole-hill here. To me hardly anything seems to have changed; the navigation via tabs is now more nested, which has up-sides and down-sides. The actual information provided is almost unchanged. I would be curious what specifically made you say that the change makes the site move into a social media direction. (I'd be against this, but I don't see it.) | |
| Apr 19, 2015 at 22:40 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | @quid I plead guilty to not knowing this was coming until recently, although I certainly don't feel guilty about that or that I've somehow been remiss. Mostly I tune into meta.stackexchange when I have to look up some point of policy to do my "job" here (which is volunteer work, as you know). My comments before were in view of just such a discussion of "special-casing" as you put it: this is just the type of thing that probably had people leery of the migration. I would love an opt-in policy for MO users. | |
| Apr 19, 2015 at 21:05 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | Oh, and before the discussion gets out of hand, we have an agreement to part ways and do things our own way (with our own servers, maintenance team, software support, as well as giving up all or most of the benefits accrued from the migration, etc.). All those ready to pull the ripcord on the emergency chute, raise your hands. Gerhard "Still Thinking About Hand Raising" Paseman, 2015.04.19 | |
| Apr 19, 2015 at 20:59 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | I think, to save time and trouble, we should color the user names brown for those in favor of the migration to 2.0 from MathOverflow 1.0, purple for those against, and black for those who abstain or are/were undecided. (Or have a committee decide on the color scheme, for those who have a few weeks to kill.) That way the color says it all, and will save a lot of future typing, trust me. If you weren't expecting this sort of thing after the migration, you weren't thinking ahead. Gerhard "I'll Take The Color Green" Paseman, 2015.04.19 | |
| Apr 19, 2015 at 18:31 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | I have just seen some of these profiles on MSE and now can't decided which I dislike more: the aesthetics of the design, or the "banter" of the SO blogpost which is linked to by Bjorn. | |
| Apr 19, 2015 at 16:26 | comment | added | user9072 | @ToddTrimble the general fact that, and how, the profile pages will be changed was discussed over the period of a year with plenty of community input, e.g., they were live as a test on Meta Stack Exchange for quite some time. (If you think MO wants some special-casing you might want to start a discussion about it.) A good point to start to trace the process might be this initial post and then following the dupe-links. | |
| Apr 19, 2015 at 2:56 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | Another point is that the Profile pages (which are now to be the default pages) would seem to be moving our beloved site into a social media direction (think FB, Twitter) that many MO users explicitly do not want. | |
| Apr 19, 2015 at 2:41 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | I see this has been implemented at math.stackexchange. I agree with Andy and Yemon, and annoyed that it is, apparently, a fait accompli. | |
| Apr 17, 2015 at 0:29 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | Also, I am inclined to agree with Andy on the aesthetics. | |
| Apr 17, 2015 at 0:28 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | I've not finished skimming that post/link, but in my opinion, Grimlock treat this kind of tomfoolery with scorn and rally Dinobots to join him seek return to Proper Ways | |
| Apr 16, 2015 at 23:57 | comment | added | Andy Putman | Blech. It will take two clicks instead of one to figure out what someone has been doing recently. And it's seriously ugly. | |
| Apr 16, 2015 at 23:53 | vote | accept | Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen | ||
| Apr 16, 2015 at 23:52 | answer | added | JaydlesStaffMod | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 16, 2015 at 23:14 | history | edited | Shog9 |
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| Apr 16, 2015 at 23:00 | history | asked | Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |