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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?
I thought the best way to respond to this answer would be with a sketch. The answer raises a few key points: - Sho …
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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 thought the best way to respond to this answer would be with a sketch.
The answer raises a few key points:
- Show me my communities (not all of them), in an order I choose.
- Show me where there's new stuff I should know about.
- Compactly.
For the "list of communities" part of the network profile, I was imagining something like this:
Each community in the list shows the following info:
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Logo and name: drag up or down to re-order communities in your list.
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Reputation: tooltip shows when you last received a vote, and the number is a link to the Vote Summary tab on the profile on that community.
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Number of top-level posts (in all categories): probably needs a better label, but it's not just questions because there are also articles and there could be others.
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Number of answers: even if there are other types of posts that are not top-level posts in the future, I think it's ok to lump them in here.
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For the owner only: the "silver dot" indicator like you see in the category list or on the dashboard, and the tooltip indicates which categories have new activity since you last visited. I'm assuming that since we compute this for the category list already, it's not arduous to compute and show here.
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(Edited to add:) For the owner only: number of pending notifications from that community. (Not shown in the sketch.) We don't have anything to link to yet for community-specific notifications, but at least this tells you what's waiting in your global inbox.
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For the owner only: number of flags raised (link to your flags page), with some visible indicator if there are new responses to your flags. We don't currently indicate new responses anywhere (you have to know to go look), so I don't know if this is hard. I'm including flags here as an extra reminder of/affordance for "whatever happened to that flag I raised?".
This question is about the network profile, but perhaps we could also order the communities in the drop-down switcher to match the order on the profile -- you chose that order once, probably for a reason, so perhaps we can be consistent.
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