# Improved View to User Field
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-view-to-user-field/116090
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [April 26, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-view-to-user-field/116090 "2019-04-26T19:42:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Anatolia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Anatolia)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-view-to-user-field/116090/1 "2019-04-26T19:42:56Z")
Hello, we recently decided to create user fields on our forum to let our users share their accounts from Spotify, Steam, PSN on their Discourse profile. But we have seen that long links on profiles looks ugly.
In message box we have hyperlinks that hides ugly long links under a text we decide. It might be just like this on user fields to hide long links under texts.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-view-to-user-field/116090/2 "2019-04-26T20:36:17Z")
You can follow this guide and make the URL become a small icon (scroll down and read the whole topic)
> [@(Retired) Use an ID in a custom user field to link to a user's external profile](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-custom-user-field-to-external-website/41218):
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> Let’s say you want to add a link of User’s main profile page on Discourse user profile page and user card, clicking on that link will take user to main (external) website. The link of main website user profile page will be like: http://myawesomewebsite.com/user/USER\_PROFILE\_ID Let’s get started! Create a custom user field Let’s create a user field with name User Profile. Make sure “Show on public profile?” option is enabled. The above field will store external user profile IDs. A…
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### Author:  [@Anatolia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Anatolia)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-view-to-user-field/116090/3 "2019-04-26T21:35:39Z")
This seems complicated. I think it would be good feature if it creates clickable texts as in hyperlink 🤔
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### Author:  [@Anatolia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Anatolia)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-view-to-user-field/116090/4 "2019-06-03T04:52:26Z")
Discourse also can make it like Discord does. It would show icons of connected accounts on user profile.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 5:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-view-to-user-field/116090/5 "2019-06-03T05:20:21Z")
Every connection is a possible exploit, so I don’t know that you want to _incentivize_ a large number of account connections per user.
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### Author:  [@Anatolia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Anatolia)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 7:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-view-to-user-field/116090/6 "2019-06-03T07:37:17Z")
We already can login via Google, Instagram, Twitter, Github accounts and more with plugins. How is this different? I just wonder.