We appear to have reached consensus here.
The following elements will appear in user profiles:
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(Added to MVP list.)
Might be implied by āOwn activity logā, but suggest including:
Iād suggest thatās not MVP, @manassehkatz - a log of what youāve interacted with recently for your own use is; displaying what you do to other users (including your communities) is not necessarily.
I do not mean a list of what you do to other users/communities. I mean simply a list (clickable) of other sites - i.e., saying that in addition to āWeb Programmingā, I am also part of āDIYā and āElectronicsā etc. so that if someone likes (or dislikesā¦) what I said in one place, they can easily see what else Iāve done.
Does a network profile ā a page from which you can get to your user profiles on all sites ā satisfy your request?
Almost. That sounds to me like an extra step. I really like the way SE works where if you go to a profile (your own or anyone elseās) you see a list of āCommunitiesā with the reputation for each community (I know, we may not have rep per se, but whatever ranking or status code or whatever), and if you click on one of them then you go to the userās profile for that community, which includes community-specific profile details (if any) and top q/a/actions/etc.
More specifically, you see a list of up to five other communities there. If somebody has more communities than that, you have to click through to the network profile to get to them.
Obviously there are limits. Whether we make it 4 or 5 or 10, there will be a limit. And thatās OK. While I havenāt done an analysis, anecdotally I find that most users have a handful of ātop sitesā and the rest are in the ā< 10% rep compared to the top sitesā range. For example, one of the contributors Iām most familiar with from DIY, Harper (now Harper - Reinstate Monica) has:
I think there should be the option of several distinct identities from the same account. If not implemented in MVP, at least the option should be considered during the software design, so that it is not unnecessarily hard to add it later.
Distinct identities means that other users (other than site admins) are not able to discover that the two identities are of the same person.
Unfortunately Iām currently unable to find the past discussion of this on Discord.
I donāt think we need to anything special for ādistinct identitiesā. Anyone who wants to do that can simply create a new username. If the system chokes on āemail address already in useā (personally I find email as the backup authentication process/password reset/etc. very useful but thatās a separate discussion), the reality is that anyone who really wants ādistinct identitiesā will have (or can easily get) multiple email addresses too. So no coding needed.
I would like some form of system support for distinct identities where the system knows that itās me and doesnāt let me do anything bad such as cross-voting or voting twice for the same post, but this is not public.
For example, Iād like to have a professional account and a personal account, but I donāt want to reveal where I work on my personal account. And a Workplace account which I donāt want my employer to know about.
I want this both for myself and for others. For myself, because thereās no way I can manage multiple accounts ā Iāve tried to vote on my own posts before (both up and down). I donāt look at the author name before voting. And for others because it would simplify moderation. If you have multiple accounts, either they need to be associated or every one of them but one may not vote, period.
Thatās absolutely not an MVP requirement.
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