Expose profile pictures and bio

[bdonvr]

I believe Apollo showed profile pictures on the user's profile.

[aeharding]

I don't think so - maybe that was a setting you had enabled?

Of course we don't have to do what apollo did.

[aeharding]

Thinking about this a bit more: I want to preserve Apollo's DNA and not put this directly on the user page.

However, I do want to expose it. I think we could add it as a separate page in the ellipsis header menu of the user page.

[0xCmdrKeen]

I also thought the Voyager profile pages looked a little bland and boring, so I've been experimenting with on my own for a bit. Just found this issue, so I thought it would be a good place to share what I came up with.

Basically, I wanted something that looked simple yet familiar, didn't take up too much space, but showed all of the following: profile picture, banner (if available), username and instance.

Here's a couple of screenshots showing the following scenarios:

1. A user with profile picture and banner
2. A "regular" user with profile picture only
3. A user without profile picture or banner
4. A user with an extremely long handle

I didn't include bio (yet) since I'm not sure how many people use it or how much space those might take up, and tbh I simply forgot that those are a thing on Lemmy. Could certainly be added, although perhaps it would make sense to either provide an option to turn them on or off in the settings, or add an entry to the menu box below the scores.

LMK if this is of interest, happy to send a PR.

[aeharding]

@0xCmdrKeen I may be interested in adding a user sidebar, but currently I am not interested in adding avatars and wallpapers to the top of users' profile pages. It pushes actual user content below the fold and to me that's something I'm specifically trying to avoid, compared to other lemmy apps, facebook etc :)

[0xCmdrKeen]

@aeharding I see, gotcha. What if it was a configurable option? Then users can decide on their own if they want the app to be more colorful or more information dense.

The whole thing is a single component of barely 50 lines in my current implementation. Could easily be switched on or off. There's a capacitor module to detect the network type so there could even be an option to only have it enabled on WiFi (since loading the images will of course generate more data volume).

[sallyFoster]

@0xCmdrKeen @aeharding What did you guys ever decided for this? It would be great to have this feature

[0xCmdrKeen]

@sallyFoster unless @aeharding has changed his opinion since then I'm afraid this is not going to happen.

[bdonvr]

Wow that would be mega disappointing. I get not having them in line necessarily, but having it on the profile page seems like a no brainer especially if someone already got it implemented. Bio too.

Feel left out when someone comments on someone else's pfp and I have to go to browser to figure it out.