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Update

We have done a bunch of work following your feedback - just look at all those tags on the different answers here!

The top suggestion was to do something about the badge visualization - we have listened and completely redesigned that piece - check out the new and improved badge visualization, on the profile page.

In the next few weeks we will preview further profile changes here on MSE - mostly to the activity page and following feedback and rework on those, the new profile page will go live to the rest of the network (6-8 weeks, give or take).

You may recall this thing - our profile page makeover prototype, the reloaded user page. We posted a prototype 6 months ago and got a lot of feedback. Since then, generations of dinosaurs were born, fell in love, had families and were eventually killed by a comet. Or climate change, or maybe texting and driving or some nonsense like that.

We picked up work again after a couple months of avoiding it (one or two of you noticed...) and started cleaning up some of the rough edges. We are looking to get this right and the change isn't urgent, so we are taking our time on it. We want to have something that is clearly better than the current page.

What is all this about again?

The user profile page was trying to address two fairly different use cases:

  • What is most valuable and useful when you want to see what someone else is all about.
  • What you should see when looking at your own profile.

Because it was trying to solve both problems in one place, it was decent at both, but not great at either, and it probably was overall more optimized for the "looking at my own profile" use case.

So, here's what's happening

If you go to your profile on MSE right now, you'll see it now has two tabs in the top left:

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The "Profile" page is your new public profile. It's what everyone will see by default when they click your picture at the bottom of a post or find you in the users list. It should communicate what you know and what you've done.

The "Activity" page is intended to be your own personal dashboard, stuff that isn't necessarily of interest to others but that you want to see when visiting your own profile. Right now it's just the old profile page, but we'll be tackling that next and asking for feedback here on how to make it more useful.

See for example the Activity and Profile pages of BalusC - the former shows you his overall activity on the site, the latter showcases him.

Some of the things we changed based on your feedback:

User info section:

old user info

new user info

We also added a new "people helped" counter based on the views your questions and answers have gotten. This is essentially a sum of views of your questions, and answers that fall within the following criteria: accepted, have a score of 5 or more, have more than 20% of total score of all answers on a question or are within the top 3 answers by score. No deleted posts are counted.

Tags:

old tags

new tags

And some other tweaks and visual updates we can't quite remember - you can see the old version here.

Unfortunately the very popular request to make the badges interactive didn't quite make it in -- but we may still come back to this later.

Feedback

We are looking for your feedback before this goes out to the rest of the network - what's broken? What's missing from the new page? What needs a bit of polish?

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    Is there a plan to allow users to see the activity page by default even for other users? This is something I'd really prefer on sites where I'm a moderator.
    – Mad Scientist
    Nov 27, 2014 at 16:04
  • @Mad - not at this time, but that's why we are taking feedback :)
    – Oded
    Nov 27, 2014 at 16:05
  • @cVplZ - I will. It is not that complex, but has a bunch of different clauses. Stay tuned.
    – Oded
    Nov 27, 2014 at 16:28
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    Leaving "by default" aside, are you planning to keep "Activity" visible to other users, or will it be converted to a private page? My evaluation of the profile prototype depends on whether it's one of two things we can see, or the only thing.
    – user259867
    Nov 27, 2014 at 17:31
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    @Raff - the activity page will be visible to all. It is, after all, what the old user page was. All that info is already public, why change that?
    – Oded
    Nov 27, 2014 at 17:34
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    Here's some links for the pages, which will automatically adjust based off of who is signed in: profile, activity.
    – Pokechu22
    Nov 27, 2014 at 17:55
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    I still think all the repeating icons for badges is just hideous and looks silly. There has got to be something better you can do with that space.
    – animuson StaffMod
    Nov 27, 2014 at 18:51
  • I want to see how it looks on my SO profile.
    – i3arnon
    Nov 27, 2014 at 23:30
  • @animuson: I would guess, that’s what the interactive badges are intended to do. But without them, I agree.
    – Wrzlprmft
    Nov 28, 2014 at 0:01
  • @Wrzlprmft It's hard to see how one could interact with 1000+ badges on some profiles. They would take a while to load (and those are the most viewed profiles, too).
    – user259867
    Nov 28, 2014 at 0:43
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    Very sad the animated badges didn't make it :(
    – fredley
    Nov 28, 2014 at 16:18
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    I really don't see the point of this. With the sole exception of the "Top network posts" box and the silly "X people helped" number, there is no information on the "profile" page that isn't already on the "activity" page. The profile page is just a version of the activity page that takes more space to display less info. If you justify the existence of the profile page by redesigning (removing information from) the activity page, then you have two semi-unuseful pages instead of one useful page. If you don't remove information from the activity page, then the profile page is simply superfluous.
    – Boann
    Dec 3, 2014 at 14:58
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    This is very messy and it looks as if SE is trying to nullify the division of the network into distinct sites and communities and throw everything into a big messy melting pot instead. It reminds me of Quora, and the new profile is equally unuseful to the ones on Quora because you have a hard time to retrieve your own stuff.
    – Dilaton
    Dec 5, 2014 at 22:53
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    I like it. It provides useful information in an interesting way. Don't listen to the people who can't help but resist change. When will we see this network wide?
    – RubberDuck
    Dec 20, 2014 at 12:37
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    The new badge treatment is much better -- thanks!
    – Monica Cellio
    Jan 21, 2015 at 16:37

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Can you make a magenta green sprite for the answers / questions when they are accepted / have an accepted answer so they stand out?

I also really liked that the word "reputation" was grayed out in the Profile tab under my avatar, where it would appear white black like the reputation count. The new change also colors the entire box, which makes it prettier. Thanks!

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    The posts with an accept have a filled up box, but we can look at the sprites as well.
    – Oded
    Nov 27, 2014 at 16:23
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    @Oded Thanks! I asked for this because the Android app has a colored Q/A sprite.
    – Unihedron
    Nov 27, 2014 at 16:24
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    Is it only me who finds the Q and A circles indistinguishable at first sight?
    – yo'
    Nov 27, 2014 at 18:23
  • The Q&A icons for accepted posts are now colored.
    – Oded
    Nov 28, 2014 at 15:15
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There is no notice in the "Profile" tab if a user is suspended, it just looks like he is 1-rep user.

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  • Well, it's still there in the Activity page. That said... wonder what can cause such a punishment to someone with so much reputation! :/
    – Shadow The GPT Wizard
    Dec 5, 2014 at 19:37
  • @Sha just visit tavern :D Scroll a bit up... He was just suspended because he wanted so.
    – nicael
    Dec 5, 2014 at 19:38
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    This will be there in the next build
    – Oded
    Dec 8, 2014 at 11:03
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Will the Activity super-tab (i.e. the old profile view, sibiling of the “Profile” super-tab which is the new profile view) be retained on other people's profiles in the long term? I think it shouldn't: most of the information is redundant. We already have tabs with subtabs on a user profile, adding supertabs is too much complexity for too little gain.

However, all the information that's present on the old profile would need to be accessible from the new profile. Not everything needs to be directly on the landing page, it would be enough for the landing page to include links to:

  • the bounties tab
  • the activity tab (the one with optional filtering on posts, suggestions, reviews, etc.) (I use this one a lot)
  • vote statistics — I do want to know this about people, but it doesn't need to be on the landing page, it can be a click away (a new statistics tab?)
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    The tab will be retained, but will get redesigned. Much (all) of the redundancy will be gone. The idea is to progress slowly with our complete rework of all pages, to ensure nothing is left behind.
    – Oded
    Nov 27, 2014 at 20:18
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    As a moderator I want to see the more complete view of the activity page. I already have to click through a bunch of different places to do my job sometimes; don't make it even harder by removing "redundant" stuff from that view.
    – Monica Cellio
    Nov 27, 2014 at 21:33
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    @MonicaCellio Doesn't apply only to moderators, it applies to those high-rep people who do the moderating as well (based on the community-driven concept).
    – yo'
    Nov 27, 2014 at 21:46
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    @MonicaCellio Were you refering to the new “Activity” super-tab or the existing “activity” tab? I absolutely don't want to lose the existing “activity” tab, but I don't think that was in the plans — and I want it a single click away, not two like it would be with the current proposal.
    – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
    Nov 27, 2014 at 22:02
  • I meant what's being called the "activity" page here, which is the fuller, useful profile that we're all used to. I wouldn't want to lose the "activity" tab either. Sorry for the confusion. (Err, maybe they should rename one of those...)
    – Monica Cellio
    Nov 27, 2014 at 22:09
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    @MonicaCellio What do you miss on the new page? There's nothing else that I'd want to have there directly, even as a mod; but I do want all the extra data (full activity tab, vote count, etc.) to be reached in a single click.
    – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
    Nov 27, 2014 at 22:11
  • @MonicaCellio Hmmm, I think we're still talking at cross-purposes. If you're talking about the existing “activity” tab with the chronological view of nearly everything, then we're in full agreement that it should be retained, and I haven't seen any plan to remove it. But you now seem to be saying you want to keep the top-level “Activity” option, but I don't understand why.
    – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
    Nov 27, 2014 at 22:20
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    The "activity" tab on the current profile is essential. The current profile view, which is behind a new "Activity" supertab, contains information that I want to be readily available that is not present on the newly-designed profile. So I want that supertab to be there. Voting activity is one example.
    – Monica Cellio
    Nov 27, 2014 at 22:21
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    The new profile is designed to advertise a user to other users. It loads up the view with stuff from other sites (I probably don't care as a mod on my site) and completely removes access to votes, bounties, activity, and responses. It makes tags and badges harder to see. Look again -- none of the tabs we're used to are present on the new profile, most especially "activity".
    – Monica Cellio
    Nov 27, 2014 at 22:24
  • @MonicaCellio Uh? The recent activity list isn't on the main page of the old profile either, it's one click away. Do you really need active bounties on the landing page as opposed to behind one click? Responses don't show up on other people's profiles.
    – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
    Nov 27, 2014 at 22:33
  • It's one click away on the current profile. It's not reachable at all from the new one. And responses do show in other people's profiles for moderators. This all started with me saying "don't make my job as moderator harder"; read all of this in that frame. (And I do want to casually notice if a suspicious user has been getting lots of bounties. I might never think to click through and look; having it on the main page draws my attention to it.)
    – Monica Cellio
    Nov 27, 2014 at 22:35
  • @MonicaCellio It's not reachable, which is why I'm requesting for it to be reachable in one click. I still can't figure out if we're agreeing or disagreeing, I think I'll just drop the matter. Regarding bounties, offered bounties are already behind a click now, so that would be a separate feature request.
    – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
    Nov 27, 2014 at 22:38
  • And I'm saying that even if activity were linked on the new page, the new page is harder to use and designed for a different purpose, so keeping the "Activity" version is important. I don't think I can persuade you so I'll stop trying.
    – Monica Cellio
    Nov 27, 2014 at 22:48
  • Another thing from the current profile/new activity page that as a mod I use frequently: the flags history. Just the numbers (helpful/declined) tells me something, and clicking through tells me more.
    – Monica Cellio
    Nov 28, 2014 at 3:30
  • From what I can work out you always land on your own activity super tag, no matter where you started.
    – ben is uǝq backwards
    Nov 28, 2014 at 6:01
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It is hard to understand the beginning and end of About me, please border it or change the background color:

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  • This will look very strange on profiles with little content in the about me. Declining.
    – Oded
    Nov 28, 2014 at 14:48
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    @Oded Then make it flex-height?
    – bjb568
    Mar 15, 2015 at 22:05
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On the "Activity" page, you could hover over a tag and be told the number of questions, the number of answers, and the total score of each of those. Not so on the new "Profile" page.

: show the number of posts per type and total score for questions/answers when hovering over a tag count on the "Profile" page.

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- there is a link there, if there are more accounts than already visible.

On the old page ("Activity"), there was a list of a user's top accounts, and the word "Accounts" was a link to the accounts page of their network profile.

I noticed that on the new page ("Profile") the word was changed to "Communities," which is just fine IMO....but the word no longer links to a user's network profile.

This was useful to me if I saw a user, and thought I'd seen them before on another site in the network -- I could open their page and visually scan (or search, if there's too many accounts) for sites that I'm active on.
Since there's now no link on the default (Profile) page on MSE, if I want to do that, I have to switch to the other (Activity) page, which is way to much work!!! :(

All kidding aside; it's really no big deal, but I think this would be a nice change to implement. ( can you call it a change when it's a request for things to remain the same? )

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  • i.stack.imgur.com/VlSd1.png
    – nicael
    Nov 30, 2014 at 21:53
  • @nicael Hm.....you raise a good point. I'm not convinced that my proposed change is needed anymore.
    – MTL
    Nov 30, 2014 at 21:57
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    Yeah, in general they're de-linking the section headers in favor of those "more..." links over on the right, so this is consistent with that. I would much rather have the headers be links; I use those all the time because they're easier targets to hit; at smaller window sizes the "more" links in the right column are out of view and I have to scroll horizontally. But even without that, the header is bigger and closer to the center of the page, so less mouse action and more-accurate clicking.
    – Monica Cellio
    Nov 30, 2014 at 22:15
  • @Monica It won't be implemented :(
    – nicael
    Nov 30, 2014 at 22:16
  • There is a link to the account page, if the users has more accounts than are displayed. This is seen in the screenshot from nicael.
    – Oded
    Dec 1, 2014 at 9:58
  • These things are not gone - they just moved a bit.
    – Oded
    Dec 2, 2014 at 16:55
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WTF is that grayish background doing on the avatar?

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I slightly darkened the color, so you can see it better. I guess it falls under "poetic license."

Here's the CSS rule that should be banished forever, or at least made to work correctly:

background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #f6f6f6 1%, #f6f6f6 45%, #fff 45%, #fff 100%);

That means a solid-color "gradient" from the top to 45% down in an annoying shade of grey, and the rest white. It was intended to be a gradient, but then a mysterious #f6f6f6 45%, #fff 45%, appeared in the middle. Here's what you're looking for:

background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #f6f6f6 1%, #fff 100%);

But why do you even need a background gradient/color The fact is that no avatar will blend in with that exact grey, whereas many avatars have a white background and will blend in nicely. So here's a much better CSS rule:

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  • It kind of carries over the way they split the company logos on Careers
    – random
    Nov 28, 2014 at 4:03
  • @random Did they split the company logos on Careers? I don't see that.
    – tbodt
    Nov 28, 2014 at 4:05
  • Also noted here: meta.stackexchange.com/a/244242/162102
    – Monica Cellio
    Nov 28, 2014 at 4:58
  • This is by design. This was not designed as a continual top to bottom gradient.
    – Oded
    Nov 28, 2014 at 14:49
  • @Oded By what design? It doesn't make any sense to me.
    – tbodt
    Dec 6, 2014 at 0:25
  • @tbodt - are you saying that since it doesn't make sense to you it must have not been designed?
    – Oded
    Dec 6, 2014 at 0:38
  • @Oded I want to know why it makes sense.
    – tbodt
    Dec 10, 2014 at 21:07
  • I don't really follow. The background was designed to be part grey part white. It was not designed as a continual gradient - which appear to be what you think it should be. Why should it be a gradient filling the container? Why does that make (more) sense?
    – Oded
    Dec 10, 2014 at 21:15
  • @Oded Why was it designed to be part grey and part white?
    – tbodt
    Dec 10, 2014 at 21:44
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(in the next build)

Old "Activity" tab counts my posts per tag well:

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But not the "Profile" tab:

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Whats up with diamonds in "Communities" section? They should be properly aligned.

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  • @Mari something wrong with my english?..
    – nicael
    Dec 1, 2014 at 21:01
  • Nope, it's fine. Just saying, you can't please all of the people all of the time.
    – Mari-Lou A Слава Україні
    Dec 1, 2014 at 21:09
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    @Mari I just posted that because they are usually on the same line as the name and there they look like they are in superscript. You know it, don't you?
    – nicael
    Dec 1, 2014 at 21:12
  • What browser/OS are you using? I can't reproduce this on latest Chrome, Windows 8.1
    – Oded
    Dec 2, 2014 at 11:32
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Personally I don't think that "Activity" is a good name for old part of user profile. Now we have two activity tabs by the way - one for old part of profile and another for all activity - posts, comments, badges received, etc. It could be confusing.

I think that the old name - "Dashboard" would be better. So please change the name of this tab, don't use "Activity".

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There's no way to see how much rep you have on other sites from the profile page.

On the Activity view, it shows me i have exactly 10,149 rep on SO; but the Profile view just shows 10.1k. (Same with other sites above 1k - it rounds.)

Hovering over it doesn't even give me the number! It just says the site name:

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However, hovering over the badge icon does give me this extremely helpful tooltip:

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Right now it looks like there might be a plan to allow for excluding sites from both the top network posts list, and communities list. However, I would hate for those to be the same list. I have 1 singular problem with my top post list:

My issue with the top post list is only 1 question: Do Costume Affect Breast Physics

It was a question that got quite a bit of attention (and was controversial) and so when I answered it, it got a lot of up votes. Frankly speaking, it isn't even a great answer. But it rose to the top pretty quickly and it now sits right on my profile.

Now I have no problem with the question at the end of the day (I did answer it, after all) but I do have a problem with it showing up on every one of my profiles across the network. My username here is part of my brand and I'd rather not have my brand be well known for it's "breast physics" expertise. Because when I am talking to a client or employer, they may not take well to that question.

On the other hand, I am a gamer, and my reputation on Arqade is the highest of any other community. Gaming is part of my identity and I have no problem with the other questions appearing there. And I actively want my Arqade reputation displayed on my communities list. It shows I know how to answer questions, and that I am knowledgeable and contribute to a community. The fact that it isn't Stack Overflow doesn't matter, it still builds my brand reputation to have that displayed.

So please, please, please let me just exclude a single question from my top posts list. And if that isn't going to be an option, then at least let me have a separate exclusion list for top posts and communities so that I can show off the good things I have done on that site.

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    I see where you're coming from with this, but it might be too much work (and lots of data to store).
    – Scimonster
    Dec 13, 2014 at 20:38
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Um I guess this is ...

Well, if @Oded won't do it:

If I don't like reality, at least I can script it

Download userscript here, or get the gist.

Update

This script now actually shows your actual badge names. Working on the overlays on matching badges next...

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  • Note that I dropped the tt parameter, in favor of keeping just one tab parameter (with values of profile and allactivity for the top tabs).
    – Oded
    Dec 5, 2014 at 10:55
  • @Oded Noted! Latest version produces nice overlay of matching badges as you mouse over. Doesn't flow the overlay onto the last row of badges properly, still got that to fix...
    – fredley
    Dec 8, 2014 at 18:26
  • @Oded But...but...the North Korean Generals!
    – fredley
    Jan 21, 2015 at 16:43
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    Well... after what happened with Sony, we decided not to take any risks.
    – Oded
    Jan 21, 2015 at 16:49
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- we like eggs. But not that much. (with you in the next build)

"Top Rarest" in the badge display sounds odd. "Rarest" already implies most rare. "Top Rarest" is over-egging it a bit. Suggest just making it "Rarest".

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  • Why not "Top X by rarity"?
    – Fish Below the Ice
    Jan 21, 2015 at 18:12
  • @FishBelowtheIce - why not "Top X by rainbow-dash"?
    – Oded
    Jan 21, 2015 at 19:48
  • @Oded Oh please. Top X by Pinkie Pie.
    – fredley
    Jan 21, 2015 at 20:10
  • Seriously considering that.
    – Oded
    Jan 21, 2015 at 20:18
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Eeek! The "Activity" tab only works when you're signed into the SE site. Repoed in Chrome and Firefox.

It works perfectly when signed in, but it won't change off the "Profile" tab when you're not signed in.

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  • Reproduced (Firefox, private window). That's bad; I look at profiles on sites where I don't have accounts, or don't want to sign in, fairly often, and it's the "activity" view I'm looking for. (Example: looking at other activity from a user who's come to mod attention on sites I moderate.)
    – Monica Cellio
    Dec 1, 2014 at 4:05
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- this was a bug. You will note that the tt param is now gone.

Feature-request: links like https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/{id}/name?tab=... should be redirected to https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/{id}/name?tab=...&tt=activity, because they became invalid. Not only in posts, but also in mobile web user page. It is now impossible to get a full list of answers, questions, tags, bounties, impossible to view reputation in mobile, unless it is your profile. You will be thrown to full-site "Profile" tab. The only way would be to click "full site" in the bottom.

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Tab "Profile" doesn't exist in mobile sites, maybe always use tab "Activity" in mobile view? Or any plans to implement "Profile" tab for mobile?

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  • We are first focusing on getting the redesign out for desktop - once we are happy with these we will start looking at the mobile side.
    – Oded
    Dec 2, 2014 at 16:52
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For some reason the "View all badges →" link in the Profile tab is broken when you view other user profile, e.g. https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/144180/oli?tab=badges&tt=dashboard

It's just showing the tab as-is, while when clicked in my own profile, it shows the regular badges tab of the good old profile page.

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Why there is a line over the menus?

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  • What browser and OS are you on?
    – Oded
    Nov 28, 2014 at 8:30
  • @Oded Browser : Firefox version 28.0 . OS: Ubuntu 14.04
    – Avinash Raj
    Nov 28, 2014 at 8:32
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    This is not something that we will fix. It looks fine in current versions of FireFox - our support policy is for current and previous versions of popular browsers, and you are a few good versions behind. A a small visual glitch, we are not fixing this.
    – Oded
    Nov 28, 2014 at 9:51
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Long display name ruins the design:

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    @Stéphane thanks, but I still see it cut off... guess it's waiting for a code deploy?
    – Shadow The GPT Wizard
    Dec 8, 2014 at 13:58
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    Yes, it will be live after our next production build
    – Stéphane
    Dec 8, 2014 at 13:59
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It would be great to have a link from "profile" tab directly to rep:

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I think it is awesome! I like that it is already live on MSE and can't wait for it to hit primetime (SO).

It is very polished, contains a very small amount of nuance (people "helped"), and anything buggy or lacking going forward can likely be modified or brought up through feature-request, bug, or support posts.

If I had to make some suggestions though, here are some thoughts...

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  • Green: These should also be links to the total tags, or total posts (especially since the total number is included in the text already). - we won't add links here, as we already link to the relevant pages. Adding links will also alter the design, or if not, make non-obvious sections be linkable - we don't want either.
  • Red: This text and section is inconsistent with the others. It shows the total count like they do, but it should probably be Total Badges. - the big difference here is that usually, we don't show a visualization of all tags or posts, but for badges, we do. If (when?) that changes, we will revisit the title.
  • Blue: This area needs to be expanded. It should really be the entire section here, without the text notable, and with not only more badges but the link beneath to the post like the last one gets., though we completely overhauled this section.
  • Purple: Remove this please (see above)

Here is a suggested change, with an area where more badges could be placed.

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  • About links: I noted about them in my answer which was declined and deleted by Oded...
    – nicael
    Nov 28, 2014 at 21:28
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    re: "every element should fulfill only one purpose and that purpose should be visually clear" While this is good to do with things like buttons, links for titles are very different. Almost everything that is a title is a link online. Being consistent should be the design goal, and not following convention by incorporating behaviors from coding paradigms only harms user experience. Some examples already in production include the exchange logos, the question title, the user badge in posts, every heading in the classic profile, and every link which opens a modal.
    – Travis J
    Nov 28, 2014 at 23:53
  • @nicael - Sorry to hear that, but I do think your point was valid. I did not see your answer before posting this suggestion, but do note that this request is really focused on making sure the entire section is consistent and also provides a change to the type of content arrangement in the badge area.
    – Travis J
    Nov 28, 2014 at 23:55
  • @Oded - I like how you are modifying the proposals with status tags :) I think it makes the process more transparent.
    – Travis J
    Dec 4, 2014 at 19:33
  • @Oded - Thanks for the update :)
    – Travis J
    Dec 22, 2014 at 18:39
  • No problem ;) - the other bullets are WIP...
    – Oded
    Dec 22, 2014 at 18:45
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- the spacing is consistent with other tabs in the site.

The space between the text and the underline hover decoration, seems awkwardly large. Can it be reduced?

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Thanks @Nicael for the better freehand!

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  • This is the same spacing that exists for the other tabs in other pages. Reducing it just here would be inconsistent with the other pages.
    – Oded
    Dec 1, 2014 at 10:01
  • @Oded: Ok.. Not much of a problem anyway. Thanks.
    – Abhitalks
    Dec 2, 2014 at 8:16
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- current site is excluded from the list.

MSE seems to be excluded from the Top Network Posts list. (also)

I'm not sure whether this is an exception specific to MSE, or if it will always apply to the current site once the design is pushed network-wide.

Clarification on this would be nice.

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    It will always apply to the current site once the design is pushed network-wide.
    – Oded
    Nov 27, 2014 at 20:17
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    Okay, cool. Makes sense.
    – Scimonster
    Nov 27, 2014 at 20:18
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My superscripts aren't super enough:

non-super scripts :(

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This seems to be a new .

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Where'd all my tops go???!!!?

Used to be:

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Also happens on other people's profiles.

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    Looks like when I excluded sites in private beta, live sites got excluded by mistake as well. Fixing.
    – Oded
    Dec 5, 2014 at 11:07
  • @Oded My network profile is borked in the same way: stackexchange.com/users/2752900/bjb568?tab=top
    – bjb568
    Mar 15, 2015 at 22:11
  • @bjb568 No, that looks good. It includes the one from UX (graduated), and doesn't include ones from the site we're on (MSE).
    – Scimonster
    Mar 16, 2015 at 4:41
  • @Scimonster It's missing Stack Overflow.
    – bjb568
    Mar 16, 2015 at 14:24
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There is need for additional link to badges. Just link "Badges (x)". Same with top network posts and communities.

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    I'm for clear UI and that means that every element should fulfill only one purpose and that purpose should be visually clear. Hence, think that the explicit links are good and necessary.
    – Raphael
    Nov 28, 2014 at 14:37
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Despite the fact winter bash will soon be over (wipes tears), could this still count as a bug?

Badge icons under the avatar are located above the hatz:

found in @Inf's profile, tested by me with different hatz

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  • If anything, this should be a winterbash bug, given that once winterbash is over... the bug disappears.
    – Oded
    Jan 4, 2015 at 16:56
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    @Oded that's a bug again.
    – nicael
    Dec 18, 2015 at 17:29
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The text in "top network posts" section of a user who doesn't have them is somewhat strange:

(example user)

Edit: Oh, now I got the joke, misread it at first :D But this joke doesn't work well when the user has no posts at all.

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  • I don't get the downvotes. Please explain.
    – nicael
    Mar 14, 2015 at 19:25
  • I guess it is a boiler-plate text that could have said No posts yet. Instead it tries to be funny.
    – rene
    Mar 14, 2015 at 19:39
  • @rene ah, I got it :D
    – nicael
    Mar 14, 2015 at 19:40
  • @nicael I did not downvote but I would guess the reason is "somewhat strange" is subjective. I actually like that text. Why did you feel it was strange and what do you think it should say?
    – Jason C
    Mar 14, 2015 at 19:40
  • @Jason I got the joke, did misread it a bit at first :D
    – nicael
    Mar 14, 2015 at 19:40
  • Well, you know, if the joke is easy to misread or misunderstand then your "somewhat strange" claim probably holds some ground!
    – Jason C
    Mar 14, 2015 at 19:42
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    The choice of text is somewhat less than professional. Who are those "we"? Why don't they identify themselves, in particular when making a statement bordering on veiled insult (gee, look how narrow-minded this guy is)?
    – user259867
    Mar 14, 2015 at 19:44
  • Try to remove it from the DOM. Then it really looks weird. So that is the reason for a boiler-plate text. We can now argue about the exact wording
    – rene
    Mar 14, 2015 at 19:45
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Why tag badges are not included in "notable badges" section? I have two notable tag badges (both were awarded only 10 times). But "Informed" (awarded 15 times) is still shown as most notable.

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  • Because tag badges got their own place maybe? (under Top Tags)
    – Shadow The GPT Wizard
    Dec 2, 2014 at 21:11
  • They are not excluded. But the criteria is not just how many were awarded, but also the class of the badge (gold > silver > bronze).
    – Oded
    Dec 22, 2014 at 13:59
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