Queries & Suggestions regarding new profiles section

Hey.

This is a query directed at a Moderator/Staff Member regarding the wonderful new profile application.

Judging by the rather interesting picture posted by dRD P) in his profile, I just wondered if the rules are loosened/different over there.

Peace;

 

Consider the feature to be in early beta. Our general rules (link at the bottom of each page saying "Rules, restrictions and privacy policy.") and currently, our forum rules, apply to these pages.

I suggest to consider the whole thing as a sneak preview, it might have bugs, nags and the URLs might change during the next week or two while we polish the system ready for "public launch". We have about gazillion ideas in store for this feature, but if you have suggestions, comments, etc, feel free to post them.

Reson why it was created? People were complaining the lack of "profile" data for users, what phpBB and vBulletin have.. Well, we sorta wanted to extend that slightly and allow users to have their "own home" at aD.

 

The only real problem with adding a new tab is that there's no space there

But we'll add tons of links to profile pages once we get them out of "public beta" phase. There are still plenty of minor tweaks that have to be done before the profile pages are ready to be launched "properly".

 

weazel200: There will be a page with alphabetical listing of users. It just wasn't very appealing as a front page for the new site, so it will be a separate page, hopefully available sometime tomorrow or so.

 

LMAO, gotta love conspiracy theories What the heck would a picture of you do for RIAA? If you've done something provenly illegal, they can contact your ISP, tell them your IP address and time of the day when the illegal activity happened and ISP will tell who was using that IP at that time. They don't need your picture, Net is not anonymous Using our site is, AFAIK, legal. And most Western countries provide freedom of speech, which overrides most other laws, so talking about anything is pretty much allowed everywhere.

And to calm you even further, we are a Finnish company and Finland has one of the strictest privacy legislations in world, so forcing us to hand out any identifiable data of any our users is virtually impossible and would need at least court order. Our cops don't generally have right to wiretap, etc.

 

Ye, there's some space left there, but not much. We'll evaluate it, but I think that if we add tight integration between forums and profiles, the need for new tab is rather minimal. But trust me, that's least of our pains now, still got about 20 issues to be finished before "announcement" phase and about 60-70 things before "v1.0". And that's just the beginning. Obviously the future development depends on whether the pages ever get popular enough to warrant the additional development or not, but IMO, its a nice way to add more "user-friendliness" and "community feeling" to the site.

 

As you might have noticed, we've added links to profile pages on forums already (people's nicks..). Profile pages are still considered to be in "early beta", but the changes left to be done before "proper launch" are mostly to do with backend of things, so major visible changes wont hppen in next few weeks.

 

It's all good, dRD The links idea works well because once people really latch on to the profile section (i.e. after the 'official launch'), it will be a lot of bother sifting through hundreds of thousands of profiles!

 

Just upload whatever pics you like. Anything interesting or amazing