When you go to a profile page on DEV, mine for example, there are a lot of things on there: your featured GitHub repositories, social links, your posts, and your recent comments.
There are two sides to the profile: what you would like to feature on your own profile, and what you would like to see on someone else's.
For your profile: what would you ideally use it for? Would you like to send it to prospective employers? Use it as a portfolio of your blog posts? Or, as a landing page for yourself on the internet?
For someone else's profile: what would you be visiting their profile for? Are you an employer? Or, interested to learn more about an author?
In each scenario, what information would be helpful to have on that profile? Of those things, which are the most important to you?
Feel free to think big and be creative! Thanks in advance for your feedback and ideas! 😊
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Pinned Articles
moaaaar statistics (public views, last activity ...)
Total Unicorns/Heart etc. count
Styling options like changing colors, moving widgets etc
A leveling system to recognize commenters from writers and from lurkers :D
Approving skills or knowledge areas by other people
I think that's a lot for the beginning, hopefully that's what you are searching for :D
I think you might want to avoid turning this site into a game for internet points
I totally agree with this
Build a blockchain upon this, including virtual coins and there you go!
... but no, those are literally just my brain farts on the internet :)
So we can also cut out some of those points from the list.
that info is available privately here: dev.to/dashboard
There's no statistics for
reads. I'm not sure howviewsare measured, but it'll be nice to haveviews/readsratioA leveling system would make things a lot more competitive, as people make a lot of posts just for the sake of getting levels, spending less time on each, thus decreasing the overall quality. Meanwhile, people who write posts are considered to be better than those who prefer to just read posts and give feedback.
showcases articles
I thought a chat button on a user's profile who you follow would be handy.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. As a user of the dev.to community, I would like a call to action on the profile of someone I follow, to facilitate beginning/continuing a conversation with them.
Describe the solution you'd like The motivation for this is quick access to starting a conversation with someone if you follow them and happen to be on their profile. As well, someone with more than a handful of followers is currently unable to find a user easily in dev connect.
To compliment this story, consider a lookup field on the dev connect page so a user could filter who they're looking for quickly. Also, as shown in the picture, I'd make the "Following" button a less prominent action than the "Chat" button. Also, I'm not sure about the wording "Chat"
Describe alternatives you've considered N/A
Additional context Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.
This makes sense. I'm going to instruct @mariocsee to make this part of this effort:
github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/...
Mentor system is available herein dev.to/settings/mentorship.
Well there I go, asking for features that already exist. 😂
Will add myself to that.
It exists, but we haven't fully worked out the kinks in our process, so we haven't been super loud about it.
Y'all could also use Coding Coach :D
I second the idea of a "mentor/mentee" area.
I signed up in the "mentor system" but I haven't heard anything after putting my information down.
It seems like it would be more accessible if it were listed on people's profiles.
I like the custom banner image idea. I use the same banner everywhere as part of my personal branding. Would be neat to add it here as well.
+1 for pinned articles
It would be nice to be able to specify links to other sites. For example, at the bottom of the profile panel having the ability to include a button for my Twitter, Github, and personal homepage.
In terms of LinkedIn-esque features, yeah maybe like a bulletin-board style comment folks could leave on profiles and the user could make some of them public for use as an "endorsement" of sorts, but it with an eye towards more authenticity than LinkedIn.
I think features that could help discovering like-minded people would be of value.
The profile categories are currently arbitrary text, which I think is generally a good idea. I could imagine that this could be enhanced by twitter-like searchable hashtags, or a seperate category for arbitrary tags could be introduced, because hashtags are a bit limited when it comes to expressions which are not only one word, e.g. "constraint logic programming" or "dependent types".
+1 on series. Definitely a good element to show off.
I'd really like to able to list my Instagram profile alongside the other links like Twitter and GitHub. dev.to has an Instagram account after all! :)
I like this idea
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I would like to see something like a history, you know, to find that good blog, tutorial or gem article that you forgot the name of (>. _.)> please.
I like this idea - maybe a private view of articles you gave hearts or unicorns to in the past?
I'd like to have markdown available in
learning/trying,projects and hacksandavailable forI've added a proposal here:
github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/...