The discussion revolves around the Improved View to User Field feature. Anatolia proposes a feature to hide long links in user fields under clickable text, similar to hyperlinks in message boxes. They want to enhance the appearance of user profiles with connected accounts from services like Spotify and Steam.
Falco suggests using a guide to turn URLs into small icons. However, Anatolia finds the process complicated and prefers a simple clickable text feature. They also suggest displaying connected account icons on user profiles, similar to Discord.
Codinghorror raises security concerns about incentivizing multiple account connections per user, but Anatolia questions the difference between this feature and existing plugins that allow login via various social media and GitHub accounts.
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.
You can follow this guide and make the URL become a small icon (scroll down and read the whole topic)
This seems complicated. I think it would be good feature if it creates clickable texts as in hyperlink 
Discourse also can make it like Discord does. It would show icons of connected accounts on user profile.
Every connection is a possible exploit, so I don’t know that you want to incentivize a large number of account connections per user.
We already can login via Google, Instagram, Twitter, Github accounts and more with plugins. How is this different? I just wonder.
