These are all great ideas, for this thread, I am mainly just looking for what fields we think we should have in the User Profile. I think we will have separate threads on privacy controls, permissions and security, etc.
For privacy for the initial pass, I will assume that everything is private and nothing is shared with other users other than your user id and avatar. Still wondering if Nickname / Display name is different than your User Id? ~Michael On Dec 12, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Tad Glines wrote: > I think a separate profile store would be more flexible. This separates the > user authentication, from user profile. > The user should also be able to configure visibility of profile information. > At a minimum, I think the user should be able to choose which fields of > their profile they want to be public (with private being the default). > > I also think the user should be given a "Display Name" field that > is separate from their real name. We should probably also provide the > ability for a server admin to specify which profile values are "required" > during registration and profile update. > > -Tad > > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Michael MacFadden < > michael.macfad...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> All, >> >> I am thinking of adding some functionality around user profiles. There are >> two main thrusts in the functionality. The first is implementing some user >> account / profile API with some sort of pluggable architecture such that the >> account profiles could be hooked up to an organizations exiting user store. >> The second would be implementing a basic self contained instance for out of >> the box functionality. >> >> The question I have for every one is what information should be in the user >> profile. Right now all we have in the Profile API is: >> >> - Address / User Id >> - First Name >> - Full Name >> - Avatar Image URL >> >> >> I was thinking that to start off we would have: >> >> - User Id >> - First Name >> - Last Name >> - External Avatar Image (link to an external image) or >> - Internal Avatar Image (image uploaded by the user) >> - Email Address (assuming we still want email integration) >> >> Along the way, I would be adding a "My Account" or "My Profile" page. Just >> looking for some design input. Thanks. >> >> ~Michael
