I am not happy with the current profile:
You have this giant empty whitespace on the right, while the actual important
information, like reputation, is all slammed into a small corner on the left.
Also, "reached" should be "users reached", or something with just one or two
words more context, as currently its so vague as to be not useful. Also, I will
echo the many other users who are not happy about "last seen" being killed. I
I used that nearly every day. Also, why is a dropdown being used
for a single item?
I would like to respond to this comment from Stack Overflow staff:
How would you expect anyone to make the page recognize that someone has no
content in that section? Put a box around it? Saying that it's bad doesn't help
us know what to do better. Yes, it's white space - for you... but not for
everyone.
This is pretty simple to answer, as you’ve been able to do this with HTML for
literally decades:
<!-- person with a big bio -->
<table>
<tr>
<td>small<td>
<td>big big big big big big big big big big big big big</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- person with a small bio -->
<table>
<tr>
<td>big big big big big big big big big big big big big</td>
<td>small<td>
</tr>
</table>
Result:
To respond to another comment from Stack Overflow staff:
This design supports no bio, a paragraph, and incredibly long bios. Got any
ideas on how to support a one character bio?
The default HTML behavior supports what I am suggesting. I already gave example
code above. To be clear, all you need to do is stop using a fixed width in the
right places and the problem goes away. If a user has small bio, then allow
other elements (repuation or whatever) to either get larger, or spread out
more, or both.
nlinks.