Generalize external links on user profile #1248
Labels
area: backend
Changes to server-side code
complexity: average
Not particularly hard, not particularly trivial.
priority: medium
type: change request
New feature or request
meta:288948
Currently, the user profile allows adding three "external" connections: web site, Discord ID, Twitter handle. We should keep Discord until we have a better chat solution, but otherwise, let's generalize this. I see two approaches we could take:
I am not proposing any sort of validation of these links a la Mastodon.
I'm proposing three slots because I'd like to encourage GitHub links on our production system, so that would allow you personal web site, GitHub, and some social-media site, plus Discord.
We'll need to add some explanatory text in the "Edit Profile" page for these fields, either way, so we can suggest your personal site, GitHub, or wherever else you can be contacted.
This change should include converting existing Twitter links to use one of the new slots, so no information is lost.
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