# Can we change our user page so it renders consistently

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-change-our-user-page-so-it-renders-consistently/59656>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [2017年三月21日 22:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-change-our-user-page-so-it-renders-consistently/59656 "2017-03-21T22:06:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [2017年三月21日 22:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-change-our-user-page-so-it-renders-consistently/59656/1 "2017-03-21T22:06:44Z")

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When I click through to my user page I see:

> **[@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/users/sam/summary)**
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> Co-founder Civilized Discourse Construction Kit. 
> Twitter: @samsaffron 
> Blog: samsaffron.com

I like my background, it is nice, and tells a story about a TV series that is important to me and is going to air fairly soon, but rendering wise this has 2 serious defects.

1. When I visit a user profile we are not sure how much vertical space to take, so stuff jumps which is very offputting
2. It is a huge waste of space

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/8/787128eff310e6cddb8550a115f842d5343fb545.jpg)

Personally I would much prefer if “backgrounds” did not leak up on top of my user information.

For me, this is perfectly good enough

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/5/25bbd9de550b900bf165007f2aa83b1f7acb5b8c.jpg)

It saves so much space that I don’t need to scroll anymore to see the summary, which is really what I care about, rendering would be way smoother and so on.

Should we change this?

cc @awesomerobot

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2017年三月21日 22:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-change-our-user-page-so-it-renders-consistently/59656/2 "2017-03-21T22:16:52Z")

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I prefer it the way it is, if you have fancy background, then not seeing it all through frosted glass kind of sucks.

Predicting the size should be possible though.

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**Author:** ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)\
**Post date:** [2017年三月22日 02:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-change-our-user-page-so-it-renders-consistently/59656/6 "2017-03-22T02:30:34Z")

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I think there are overall structural improvements that could satisfy both the desire for personalization and prime space utilization (amongst other things!) — that’s a fairly longer road to take though.

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**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Post date:** [2017年三月22日 02:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-change-our-user-page-so-it-renders-consistently/59656/7 "2017-03-22T02:38:01Z")

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I don’t know exactly how Facebook does it, but they load a user profile with the page already scrolled a bit, so you need to scroll back up to see the full background image, and have access to the most common info right away.