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Q&A Clicking on an avatar to see a user's profile

Below a post the user avatar shows, along with the username and some stats. The username is a link to the user profile page: Note the mouse cursor shows a hand pointing to indicate this is a...

1 answer · posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭ · last activity 6mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

Question feature-request avatar user-experience

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trichoplax‭ · 2024-07-01T17:47:30Z (6 months ago)

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Clicking on an avatar to see a user's profile

Below a post the user avatar shows, along with the username and some stats. The username is a link to the user profile page:

> ![Mouse cursor showing as a pointing hand over the username](https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/6kcrxhfgofnfjj7yy9o0kpwidvyc)

Note the mouse cursor shows a hand pointing to indicate this is a link.

However, the avatar is not a link:

> ![Mouse cursor showing as an arrow over the avatar](https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/6izmuohj57u1pdepdn2d8v0gf87m)

Note the mouse cursor shows an arrow - this is not a link.

Could the avatar also be made a link to the user profile page? This would be consistent with the user's own avatar at the top right of the page, and would make visiting the user profile page easier by giving a larger click target (particularly for users with short usernames).

Another option would be to make the whole grey box a link to the user profile page, for an even bigger click target. Does anyone have a preference between these two approaches?

feature-request avatar user-experience

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