a community is based on individual people - which are more than just a "Name Tag", a "Profile Picture", a "Forum Role" and "Badge/Post/Kudo/Solution" counter.
Please add some optional Profile fields to make the DevCentral Community more personal. Add fields like:
MotD
About me
Company Name / Job Titel
GIST URL:
Github URL:
LinkedIn/FB/etc.
Link to DevCentral Feature of the Month Interview (if exists)
Most of what you mention exists already. Basic detals are in the Help File here.
Further details: Your Signature (added to the end of every post - future and historic) or Biography can be custom built by you to include all manner of things such as links to your Feature Of The Month.
LinkedIn and FB were removed by design - You could use "personal webpage" for that if you like. We didn't want to *yet* get into PII issues associated with specific fields (too much maintenance right out of the gate) and felt like it just wasn't needed yet. Could change.
GITHUB - that's a different animal entirely. I have plans for GitHub in the coming months. I mean, you could always add that to your own Sig or Bio section too but...as a *working* site we may go specific on that one.
I don't know what MotD is? Message of the day? If so...that's a new request I'd not heard of before. Is that what you mean?
To allow someone to see your profile information a user can enable "Preferences > Privacy > Show Private > Information in Profile to...
I tested this and it does show the AboutMe section publicly. I didn't notice anything else it exposed but it didn't show email or ip address or anything so it *might* be what you are looking for.
That said...Title, WebPage, etc were (I suspect) removed from the header section at launch for two reasons 1) they were ugly and cluttery OOTB and 2) they looked like they would expose information we didn't want to drop without full inspection.
We err on the side of caution when it comes to PII (we were burned pretty badly before).
That said, I understand your request ; we are community of humans and it would be nice to get some *humanity* back in the mix. I can't promise much right now but I'll see if I can figure out how to add at least Title, WebPage, and at least the available components on the Profile Settings - back onto the View Profile Page.
"Your Signature (added to the end of every post - future and historic) or Biography can be custom built by you to include all manner of things such as links to your Feature Of The Month."
The signature is cool for a MotD. Thanks!
But i would probably not want to include my Job-Titel, Company Web, Gist/GitHub URL and whatever link i wish to every single post as a signature.
That would be slighly pretentious and probably spam the forum.
If someone wants to know more about me they should just check my profile. But right now there is no real estate beside my username reserved for such information.
