New and improved About page at /about is live

[Osama]

We’ve redesigned the /about page in Discourse. Learn more about configuration options in the documentation topic: Understanding and customizing the About page

You can see it right here by heading to /about. Here’s a screenshot:

Notable additions

• Banner image at the top of the page

• Extended description that supports HTML/markdown

• 2-columns layout to reduce the amount of white space on wide screens

• Expandable/collapsible lists of admins and moderators

• Visitors and EU visitors stats to enable site owners to comply with the Digital Services Act (DSA). This requires the display_eu_visitor_stats setting to be enabled.

Feedback

If you encounter a bug with or have suggestions for the new /about page or its admin config area, please let us know right here in this topic.

[Overgrow (OG)]

Ability to customize text on /about with full editor is appreciated! Great improvement…

I think the layout could be improved though. Something seems off to my perfectionist eye Banner doesn’t respect right margin and Contact Us seems a bit unanchored vertically (imagine how it would work with longer site description - few paragraphs).

I am not sure if text template report_inappropriate_content can contain a group tag, like @moderators, it would be great if it could include a call to action.

[MarcP]

@Overgrow

Banner doesn’t respect right margin and Contact Us seems a bit unanchored

Yup. Mobile doesn’t like this banner at all.

[ToddZ]

A better balance is easily mocked up (on desktop anyway) by forcing a width on the banner and a negative top margin on the right sidebar:

.about__banner {
  width: 970px;
}
.about__right-side {
  margin-top: -4.5rem;
}

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

It would be great if there were an easy way to hide admins (or moderators). Maybe have a hidden-admin group? Or maybe have a group for the admins you want to show! Then it could default to admin and moderator, but they could select another group.

My use case is to keep random users of sites where i am am admin because I installed it, or once helped with some technical issue, from contacting me asking for help that I can’t give.

The computer scientist in me likes to group to use instead of admins. The guy who just wants his username not to be included likes to be able to just hide it.

[tobiaseigen]

One quality of life improvement I would like to see is an edit this page link at the top like you get on the FAQ, terms of service and privacy pages. It would link straight to /admin/config/about.

@ToddZ

A better balance is easily mocked up (on desktop anyway) by forcing a width on the banner and a negative top margin on the right sidebar:

I agree this looks a lot better, especially on mobile where even the recommended width of 800 pixels is causing most of the picture to disappear off the right side of the screen.

@pfaffman

It would be great if there were an easy way to hide admins (or moderators).

That’s a great feature request. We’ll take it under advisement. I’m not sure what the smallest change we can make here is that would make this possible. Maybe just a user preference only shown to users who are Admins or moderators? Or, as you say, a site setting to specify the groups to display on the about page, defaulting to Admins and moderators? There are category moderators to, however, so not sure how this would play out.

To be very honest, this is a page we we’ve been wanting to improve for a long time and I’m glad we were able to show it some love, in part in response to requests from customers who needed to update the stats shown on it for gdpr/digital privacy act purposes. However, it’s not the most visited page on discourse so we don’t need to absolutely gold plate it.

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

It would seem like the allow users to hide profile setting would let an admin change that in their settings, but I don’t see it on my profile on two sites I just checked where I"m an admin.

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

@tobiaseigen

Maybe just a user preference only shown to users who are Admins or moderators?

That seems easiest, and requires nothing from the people who run sites where I don’t want any users to know that I’m an admin.

Then I could get rid of GitHub - literatecomputing/discourse-hide-admins-about: Theme component to hide some admin users from about page, which I found here: Hide staff from /about page

[ondrej]

Looks great!

I love the expandable/collapsible list for staff.

However, one thing that seems to be odd/using space is displaying ‘0 Moderators’. If there aren’t any it would look better if it showed nothing?

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edit: As for @pfaffman’s request (which I agree with) perhaps in the configuration page there should be something like this…

[nwnuyhs (Yang Hongsheng)]

Very nice work

[hellekin]

Warning! This does not take into account the category moderators which are also listed in the (current) about page. The situation here is more complex: given a number of admins and category moderators, there can be a lot of duplication on the page. See, for example, About - petites singularités (there are way more categories when you’re logged in, with quite some duplication).

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

I am on Tests,-passed fully up to date as of today. I do not see the experimental About page option. In experimental area or even with search

[Moin]

The setting was unhidden some hours ago

DEV: Unhide the experimental_redesigned_about_page_groups setting

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

Agreed the category moderators should be toggle able/configurable.

Maybe an option to enter choose category to see a specific category mod members?

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

@Moin

The setting was unhidden some hours ago

I just had completed an update prior to posting. Still not showing

[Moin]

Interesting
I can see it

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

Seems had to do a refresh. Now it is showing.

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

Added this to mobile

//* About Banner adjustments 

.about__banner {
  max-width: 392px;
  width: auto;
  margin-left: -1.50em;
}

Result

This puts out in main outlet? Can we put in our code the main outlet for it to autosize image to main outlet for different devices?

This was code awesombot shared before for image scaling global banner. I used it to fix Global banner display issue in air theme.

//global banner mod
#banner img {
    width: 100%;
    height: auto;
    max-width: unset;
}

Other considerations. I Really like the new layout; has a polished feel. Maybe with image to align with other image areas. Maybe have

• Light/Dark
• Desktop/Mobile

For the banner image.

Note:

Category mods do not show on the about page. At least not on my Instance.

[NateDhaliwal]

Can there be some sort of toggle so that users can see the numbers across different periods of time, instead of predefined timelines (today, year, all time). For example, a dropdown to view the different times for each number (like the old version with the table, but now a dropdown)?

[Overgrow (OG)]

@Heliosurge

Category mods do not show on the about page. At least not on my Instance.

It’s just your instance. Or rather the settings. Category moderators show just fine on our instance… Maybe it’s because the user group with the moderation privileges is publicly visible.

<section class="about category-moderators moderators-example-category">

@tobiaseigen

Maybe just a user preference only shown to users who are Admins or moderators?

If I may, I’d go the way of an admin settings to list which user groups to show on about there rather than showing some checkbox to opt-out to individual users. I think it’s generally admin’s decision what exactly to show there.