New profile pages are out - bugs and feedback master list

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Update:

Thanks for all the feedback and bug reports! I am locking this thread so people don't keep answering it when we no longer monitor it.

If you see a bug or want to raise a feature request, please do so in the usual manner, as a new question.

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Some of you may have noticed that we just launched the new profile and activity pages that we have been talking about for a while now on most Stack Exchange sites.

Most? Well, yes, the new design is dependent on a SE network-wide update (a new base css framework) that the design team have been working on. This is an ongoing effort and we will be launching the new pages as sites are moved to the new design.

You've all been hugely helpful already - much of what we love most in here came from feedback and suggestions you gave us on Meta.

But it's possible that it's not quite perfect yet. If you find any bugs and have any feedback to give, please post these as answers to this post.

Just post one issue per answer - that would help us focus on specific items one at a time.

Answer 1

status-bydesign See this answer by Nick Craver; tl;dr - GDPR compliance.

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Age is no longer listed in our Profile view.

We can still enter our birth date in our profile, and it's listed under "Public Information":

However, our age is no longer visible anywhere on the new Profile page:

I believe this is a bug. Thanks to rlemon for pointing it out.

Answer 2

status-completed

It is not possible to obtain the Informed on child Meta sites (except Meta.SE), yet one can still select it as a possible "track next badge" option:

Clicking on "Go get it" takes you to the main site tour page.

Answer 3

My next privilege is 1000 - I get the vote count and a VIP usercard:

HU? VIP usercard? Privileges doesn't say anything:

Ahh, a Help Centre search comes up with the Expanded usercard section:

But the letters VIP are not mentioned anywhere on that page (I did a Ctrl+F).

This is the only place I saw the phrase VIP usercard - and it doesn't even fit in. I think this should be changed to Expanded usercard - or even dropped completely.

Answer 4

status-completed

I've noticed some weird bugs when viewing users' profiles; more specifically, the "rarest" badges at the bottom of a user's profile are sometimes completely absent.

This seems to be odd in who it affects and be random in places.

On SO meta - Jon Skeet's Profile

On SO - Jon Skeet's Profile

On SO - web-tiki's Profile

Could this be due to having more than 3 which are classed as the rarest and therefore breaking the code to generate whatever the top 3 are meant to be?

Answer 5

status-completed

Marshal / Deputy progress shouldn't be shown to moderators

Moderators are recommended to get the unobtainable^† Marshal (and Deputy I assume) badge. It was the default selection for me:

I think this selection should probably be excluded for moderators.

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^{† If they don't already have it.}

Answer 6

status-declined - we may revisit this at a later date.

Allow us to default to the Activity page rather than the Profile page

A lot of times, when I'm going to someone's profile, I don't care about their website, location, age, profile description, etc. I care about their posts, their edits, their activities. This now takes another click to get to the "good stuff", so could we have a setting to let us default to the Activity page?

Answer 7

status-completed - the congratulations should only display if you've actually been awarded the tag badge. Also, tracked tag badges should award in more "real-time", i.e. when you visit your profile after a small hiatus (10 minutes, currently), we'll recalculate the counts and award if you've reached the threshold.

Next Badge can't decide if I've earned the next badge or not

When I go to my dba.SE profile, I see this:

When I click Track the next one >, I see this:

The first state comes back after 10 minutes or so, and then I wash, rinse, and repeat.

I assume this is some kind of caching or synchronization issue between notifications and actual awarding of badges.

Noteworthy: even though I've been notified about 10 times today that I've earned the security badge, it still doesn't appear in my list of badges.

Answer 8

As this thread has been locked and abandoned, I've raised this issue in a separate post.

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I was dismayed to find that badge progress is unavailable for tag badges¹.

When I heard of the badge-tracking feature, I was excited to begin tracking my progress toward the gold javascript badge:

So, I clicked the cog in the badge widget to configure my Next Badge...

... only to find that my desired badge was unavailable:

Kendra notes that, according to the blog post:

Once you’ve earned all the privileges, the “next privilege” bar automatically starts tracking your progress toward your closest tag badge (or another one of your choosing).

So, tag badges aren't treated like other badges; you have to earn 20k rep before tracking them... in a separate widget... which is both unexpected and disappointing.

I imagine that design discussion went something like this:

Engineer: Are we really going to put all these tag badges in the unfiltered select your next badge view? That's going to cause a performance hit.
Designer: That, and it's really going to clutter the view. By the way, I need something to put in the next permission space once a user has all permissions. I hate wasted space...
Unicorn: Guys, guys... two birds with one stone! We'll track tag badges in the space used for next privilege... and since they'll need 20k rep, that's only like 1% of our users who will ever potentially see it! Performance hit averted and, as a bonus, we can promote this feature as a "reward" for high-rep users. It all hangs together so perfectly! #guitar-riff #rainbow-trail

Unicorn's solution, while certainly expeditious and spin savvy, leaves a bit to be desired. I'd suggest one of the following:

• Add some UI cue which indicates to the user that suddenly tag and non-tag badges will be treated differently... you know... just for this aspect of the site... for some unknown reason.
• Simply add tag badges to the whole badge-tracking feature instead of setting them apart. Maybe filter by favorite tags or offer a 6th tab? I personally don't care that I won't have a next permission to track at 20k. There will still be plenty of badges... in the badge tracking UI. Just put a "you're awesome" sticker in the next permission slot.

_{¹ I'm referring to my profile on stackoverflow (not a child meta site) in case that's not clear from the javascript tag. I only have ~18k rep.}

Answer 9

Four problems here:

1. Clicking the badge brings up this pop-up containing the same content as the hover-text. Great for mobile, but this was on the desktop.

2. The hovertext still exists. I like hovertext. Kinda pointless with the pop-up though. Especially when they both show up, stacked.

3. No matter how many times I click this thing, I can't get to the actual badge page. The pop-up just keeps popping up. Ctrl-clicking won't open it in a new tab either; just shows the pop-up.

4. If I grudgingly right-click and select "open in new tab" from the menu, I still don't get the badge page because the badge ID is wrong: there's no badge with an ID of 0.

Answer 10

status-completed

Recommends unobtainable Excavator badge

I'm in the Health.SE private beta, and the Activity page is recommending the Excavator badge:

The site has been live for 14 days, so Excavator is definitely unobtainable at this point. It would make a lot more sense to recommend Suffrage in my case.

Answer 11

Feedback (not a bug report):

I would still like to see some sort of weighting for the "top network posts" section, as I explained on the earlier post. Right now this is a list of top posts by raw vote count without any other influences, so naturally it's going to show posts from the largest (or most-voting) sites I participate on. Yet I've made contributions that, by the standards of their communities, are way more significant ("top") than some of my top posts. The site where I have the most posts and am also a moderator doesn't show up on my list at all; that feels wrong.

I can exclude whole sites from the list, but that's not what I want either -- I'm looking for better balance, not wholesale exclusion. So my request is to come up with and use some sort of low-impact per-site weighting factor, like we already have for hot network questions.

Answer 12

Sync the width of rep update boxes

The above is a picture taken on an inverse color environment from my actual profile.

Answer 13

_{Originally posted here: https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6087/3094}

The word consecutive is truncated. It is awful. Please please please pretty please with sugar on top fix this. :(

_{My system: FF 37.0.1, Fedora 21, 64bits, all updates applied so far}

Answer 14

Tag score ^{_{too small}}

Unresolved request from this report in the old question.

Would you please increase the font size of question count by tag (and badge count) by 1 or 2 points? It's very straining on the eyes to read the numbers.

I have included an older design from Anime & Manga for comparison.

Answer 15

The user card has a feature that pulls important(?) links from the profile description and shows them at the bottom.

From How does the User Card popup work?:

if you include a twitter, google plus, linked in, or facebook those links are prioritized.

This feature ignores the new GitHub and Twitter fields in the profile - If I want the links (and I do), I need to embed them in the description as well.

The homepage is already there - thanks!

Answer 16

Please add creation date and last-seen date to activity page

Or at least the moderator-only block, if not the page in general. Investigating accounts that seem to be rather related to each other has become harder with the new design because of the extra clicks.

As a user I often want to see this too, but, ironically, as a user I'll see it on the first page I go to. As a moderator I definitely want to see the activity page, not the profile page -- so thanks for that change! -- but it does cost me these two bits of important information. May we please have them there too?

Answer 17

status-bydesign - this is standard in all our post listings. If a post doesn't have a year, it was asked within the last year.

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It is not entirely clear

in what year

this badge I did earn.

Answer 18

status-bydesign - this section of the profile would have been incredibly busy if we retained all bits of information on the mobile version. We decided to drop some of them in favor of readability.

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Probably no bug, but I noticed that the new profile (in the mobile version at least) no longer has a "join date." Why was that removed, and is it possible to re-insert it? I find it relevant, or at least interesting.

This is for the regular mobile version, not the app.

Answer 19

This is from Ask Ubuntu, but it affects any site with a link underline colour, including EL&U and U&L:

The link underline is going over the blue box.

It doesn't affect MSE because that has no underline on the text:

This also affects the mini graph (although I can't take a screenshot).

Answer 20

status-declined - we decided to not add links in every possible location.

I've noticed that in the reputation panel, surprisingly few things link to the reputation tab.

I expected both the reputation and the delta counter to link to the reputation tab (especially since the reputation counter says "reputation gained since your last visit to the reputation tab".

Answer 21

status-completed

Bug: Really rare badges not showing up in list of rarest badges

On the bottom of my profile page, it says the rarest gold badge I have is "C++", but the "C++11" gold badge (which I have) is much rarer. Is there a threshold that prevents the badge from showing? If so, this doesn't work well together with the word "rarest" :)

This might be the same problem as @Stewartside reports or not - it's unclear to me what he means by "weird bugs".

Answer 22

status-completed

It seems that the new reputation graph doesn't know that rep can't go below 1.

It happilly graphs negative reputation and numbers that don't match the actual rep if someone would have had <1 rep at some point.

It's probably not noticeable on most profiles, but there are some extreme cases:

While this is a bit funny, I think it should be fixed.

Answer 23

status-norepro - looks like this is caused by overzealous ad blockers.

The GitHub profile integration icon seems to be missing on Stack Overflow:

Finally, a use for my Surface Pro 2's pen.

This may be due to server-side caching. (I have cleared my browser cache and refreshed the page several times, so it isn't client-side caching.)

Answer 24

status-bydesign - if a post was created within the last year, we don't show the year. This is consistent across the different post lists.

Year missing from one of my top posts (which would lead me to think it was from this year, 2015, but we haven't gotten to Oct 2015 yet).

Answer 25

status-declined - if that text was 12px and you had in the Millions (e.g. Jon Skeet) it would go over the line:

Mismatch of fontsizes of “people reached”.

The fontsize mismatch between ~67k, people reached and everything below is irritating and as far as I can tell unnecessary. people reached can easily have the same font size as everything below, as it has only one letter more than posts edited.

Answer 26

status-completed - number of tag badges limited during initial display; you can now use the search text box to filter to a specific tag.

Next tag badge dialog UI slow for accounts with large number of tags

For users with a lot of tag activity (I have 2376 tags listed), opening up the dialog to select the next tag badge to aim for can take a long time.

The AJAX request for the data only takes ~600ms to load, so this is an issue with the JavaScript code rendering the dialog box. Profiling suggests it takes about 2.5 to 3 seconds to render the dialog box letting me pick my next tag badge to aim for.

Switching between the tabs (All to Gold to Silver to Bronze) or searching for a matching tag can lead to more delays, the switch can take up to 17 seconds!

Perhaps I am an outlier, but maybe this needs some performance work to not make this dialog box take several seconds to be rendered?

Answer 27

status-declined - we may revisit this at a later date.

I had to go to my top 10 sites individually and add up my people helped manually like a filthy casual.

So the network profile not being updated as well is a bug.

Answer 28

status-declined - we may revisit this at a later date.

The following icon in the new profile:

feels like a refresh icon in a browser's address bar, not a "member for.." icon. It does not represent that, I suggest an icon similar to the "users" icon in some SE sites, something like:

but with one person in the icon. I know it is way to silly to be considered, but just saying it.

Answer 29

status-norepro - We don't show tags in a different way anywhere. In this case, next to the tag, we indicate that you have earned a tag badge for that tag (a bronze one, specifically). Tag badges are indeed rendered differently - with the badge class (bronze, silver or gold) before the badge name. These are different things.

Don't know its a bug ot not, alignment of the badge bullet(.badge3 class) is reversed

In activity top icon badge/positioning is reversed as of default pattern

Or is there any pattern when the symbol comes first and when the name of the badge comes first

Answer 30

status-deferred - this was always the plan. To let people indicate whatever links they wanted. But of expediency (and so the new pages launch sometime this year), we started with a cut down version of the feature, with the most popular services first.

Why privilege Github over Bitbucket by having a special showcasing section for only the former? I personally somewhat prefer Bitbucket due to it's support for private repositories and Mercurial. It has also recently launched it's own equivalent of Gist, which was the main feature it used to lack in comparison with Github. While Github does seem to have a larger community and userbase, there doesn't seem to be any reason to not accept other code hosting service entries in the profile template.

The blog post seems to suggest that you can add dedicated fields for any link:

The new profile has dedicated fields for links to Github, Twitter, your Rick Schroeder Fan Fiction Tumblr, or wherever you have something to share.

.. but unless it's referring to the "Website link" field, this does not appear to be true.