i installed the DiscoTOC and Welcome Link Banner components earlier this week but the latter isn’t enabled.
there isn’t much to preview - the problem is only in mobile and when in any category or topic list view, the cards won’t even come up when i click the avatars. i get the oops that page doesn’t exist or is private on every avatar. but it works fine in the topic pages when i click on the poster’s avatars.
(To say a little more: in Community->Users, in card view rather than list view, with a window wide enough to force two-column layout, the final row can be wrapped into two rows, with the second row sparsely populated.)
I’m generally not a fan of user card backgrounds, as I find them very distracting. I can’t stop other users from setting them, but at least many users don’t bother or thankfully don’t choose overly distracting backgrounds. However, it seems that (on Meta at least) there’s a new default, auto-generated user card background, which means now everyone has a background, some particularly bright or otherwise poorly suited as a background especially on dark theme. Here’s the one generated for me for example:
Up until now I’ve been fine just using the default pink S profile picture on Meta, but making the whole background brink pink is awful. Other colors aren’t as bad, but aren’t great either. For example:
Personally I think this change should just be reverted / not released to all installs. (I have no idea if this was intended to be enabled for all installs or only as an option.) If it is released to all installs, could we get a user setting for this? Ideally a setting to disable seeing these for all user cards (since for me my primary issue is that the bright backgrounds on dark theme are very distracting), but at the very least I’d want to disable it for my own user card since I don’t want an auto-generated background based on my profile picture.
These can be very bright. I agree there should be an option for this feature. I have set my usercard to default settings. This is what it looks like. It appears to be very bright.
The reason why this should be optional is because the bright backgrounds on usercards stand out. They look bright compared to the dark theme on this forum.
First-off, thanks for this feedback! Ideally, users would have a photo avatar that isn’t the auto-generated one given at signup. If that were the case, the long term plan is to select the average color of the user-photo and use this as the background color here.
The other option would be to choose your own background.
All that being said, the usercards on meta are currently using an experimental theme component for us to test out design ideas for a possible new user card.
sorry you are correct. for some reason i thought user card view reflected in the redesign as well. i could swear at one point the Meta user card directory cards looked like the experimental redesign. clearly something is amiss but my apologies for posting in the wrong place.
i see user card directory format is still experimental and not without it’s issues: