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Future planning: what user preferences would be useful?
I am starting to think about user preferences. This won't happen for a while, but I'd like to gather input so we can start thinking about a functional design.
Currently a user has a single account across our network. When you edit your description or your display name or your blog link, those changes apply on all communities where you have a presence. Similarly, when you link a Stack Exchange account (on communities that support data import), what you're really linking is your SE network account -- you only need to link it once.
User profiles have a very small preferences section now -- there's one preference, to turn keyboard shortcuts on or off, which I believe is a global preference. We've had a request for a per-community preference for a default license -- you might ask why per-community, but it makes sense to me that if you are hobbyist photographer but a professional writer, you might want different settings on those two communities.
The possibility of per-category preferences has also been raised, again with licenses.
We need to understand the potential use cases before we design something. Knowing whether there are 3 or 30 things, for instance, or knowing whether preferences are mostly global with a few exceptions or mostly local or all over the place, makes a difference.
My question to y'all is: what kinds of things should be settable as user preferences, and with what scoping (global, community, category)? Some suggestions I've heard (please feel free to develop these in answers) include:
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default license -- per community, maybe per category
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whether your votes are public or private by default (assuming we implement optional public votes; we don't have this now) -- per community
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enable keyboard shortcuts - global?
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just to acknowledge it before deferring it: dark mode :-) (yeah maybe someday, not now, presumably global)
What else should we be considering?
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Choosing the language of the interface.
In my experience in non English sites from SE, not having a user interface in their own language was a major obstacle for many users that would otherwise have joined and participated more often.
If we foresee a future where communities can accept posts in other languages, choosing that language for the interface would be very beneficial for the users.
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