The discussion centers on a UX issue where custom user fields appear on the Activity page but not the Summary page after clicking a user’s avatar. pfaffman highlights the inconsistency and suggests that the Summary page — now the default — should display the full user profile (bio, location, custom fields, etc.) instead of the Activity tab. codinghorror and eviltrout confirm this is intentional behavior from a recent tab switch, not a bug. sam proposes two fixes: making Summary the first tab and moving expanded profile info there. techAPJ implements the change via commit ec2a66d. Later, users like scombs report seeing Activity as default even after the fix, possibly due to version lag. techAPJ explains that the latest version with the fix is being rolled out, and scombs confirms the issue is resolved after updating. The consensus is that Summary should be the default and contain full profile data for better UX.
If you click a user’s avatar on a post, you get the user card. That works as expected, but if you click the avatar on the user card, you get to /users/USER/summary. The summary page does not have the Custom field on it, but it’s the activity page that has the user bio and custom fields.
What would I expect
I think I’d expect that the BIO, location, URL, custom user fields and whatnot be displayed on the Summary, not activity page. If somehow it makes more sense that it be on the activity page, then I’d expect that the first user page I get to be the one that has the custom fields and whatnot on it (so point people first to the activity page that has the full user information on it).
Yeah this is not a bug, it’s just that information is only on the Activity tab as that used to be the default. Now that it’s no longer the default you have to click over to it to see it.
You can view source on your site to see the version and compare to meta. Meta is latest checkins we typically deploy our hosted sites once every week or two.
@techAPJ It appears that logged in users on my site are still seeing the activity page not summary. I thought would post it here in case anyone else is seeing that on their site. I am on beta 8. If you can upgrade me to latest, I will test it again. Thanks.
