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What information should be displayed on a network profile?
I want to design a network profile (and then possibly implement it). There was already discussion about that in Community dropdown and profile information, Understanding how posts were possibly received by the community --- network wide and there is an issue with when single site accounts should be created and a discussion about user preferences.
Here I want to present my thoughts on the network profile and ask you for your feedback on them. What would you like to have on a network profile?
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Ways to access the network profile: from each site profile and from codidact.com/users/12345
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Available tabs when it's another user: Profile, Activity, Vote Summary (as in the site profile)
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Additional available tabs when it's me: Account, Edit, Preferences
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Content of the Profile tab: top-left: a free text field and some links like for the site profile, below a list/table of all communities where the user has an account with links to their site profiles and statistics (number of questions, answers, edits, votes, reputation). Possibly sortable by name of community or stats mentioned above. On the right side the avatar and a summary (total number of questions, answers, edits, comments, votes across the whole network).
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Content of the Activity tab: same as for the site profiles only with content from all sites of course
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Content of the Vote Summary tab: same as for the site profiles only with content from all sites of course
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Content of the Account tab: I'm not sure, do we have site specific accounts here or is there only a network wide account, if so, that Account tab should vanish from the site profiles and only appear on the network profile
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Content of the Edit tab: I'm not sure, do we have the ability to have a different profile for each site?, if yes, maybe we could use the network profile as a way to copy text quickly to all site profiles if needed, but do we really need a unique profile text section/avatar for each site? If it's not unique, it should be moved from the site profile to the network profile.
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Content of the Preferences tab: The site profiles' preferences tabs have network preferences and local community preferences. Simply split them and put the network preferences on the network profile's preferences tab.
Some questions I asked myself while designing this:
- Do Activity and Vote Summary need to be separate tabs? One could call it History instead and then have filters and sorting on it or expand the number of tabs into a larger list (questions, answers, ...).
- Do you need to have a profile page text and avatar image that is specific for each community? Why not, I'd say, but then with potentially tens of communities this might be a nightmare to manage.
- Is there one account (email/password) for the whole network or one account for each site?
- What else would be nice?
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I would like to see a place that links to the sites I care about, and therefore want to check in on regularly. I curr …
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> Do Activity and Vote Summary need to be separate tabs? One could call it History instead and then have filters and sor …
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> Is there one account (email/password) for the whole network or one account for each site? There is one account for …
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I would like to see a place that links to the sites I care about, and therefore want to check in on regularly.
I currently have to bring up the main page, then click on the sites I want to visit while skipping over the stuff I don't care about. That wasn't much of a problem when there were only a few sites and they all fit on one screen. The sites are displayed on the main page using a lot of space (unnecessarily so in my opinion, but that's another issue). This problem will get worse as more sites are added.
A sustainable solution is for each user to have their own succinct list of sites that they have chosen. Then it's easy to go thru the list.
Whenever you participate in a site beyond just viewing, the site could be automatically added. Of course you'd have the option to remove it, and you need to be able to manually add sites. For example, I'm "watching" one site now that I haven't participated in, so would want that on my list.
Added about Dashboard
Several comments mentioned the current dashboard. It's not really what I'm looking for, and I didn't know it existed. I went to my profile here and looked around for anything called "dashboard" in any of the sections, but found nothing. I can't figure out how I was supposed to know of this.
In any case, this only addresses some of the problems. The two biggest problems I see with the current dashboard as opposed to what I'm proposing is:
- It's way too verbose in its use of space.
- I can't customize which sites I see and in what order.
Being able to quickly see where there is anything new is very useful, and that's the sort of summary info I'd like to see, but only for the sites I choose, and in a more compact form. When you click on a link to a specific site, you should get to a page that shows recent activity relevant to you. This would include any new votes, comments to your posts, and explicit replies to any of your comments.
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