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ilovejen

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Please link board user names to their band profile - 2008/02/08 20:32 I am tired of searching for user's bands that have nothing in common with their forum name.

Ugh.

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Re:Please link board user names to their band profile - 2008/02/08 20:34 you can click on the little link at the bottom of their name that goes directly to their profile. mouse over the little tiny icons below the picture, one of them is user profile page.

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Re:Please link board user names to their band prof - 2008/02/08 20:35 That brings back nightmares in the compilation project when I had to learn everybody's three IDs:

forum name
profile name
E-mail

Total mess the first two.

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ilovejen

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Re:Please link board user names to their band prof - 2008/02/08 20:47 artwhore wrote:
you can click on the little link at the bottom of their name that goes directly to their profile. mouse over the little tiny icons below the picture, one of them is user profile page.

Well that's completely unintuitive. Instead of making that tiny, tiny, icon (on my 20") the link to the profile, just change the user name into a link back to the profile.

Usability, people. Usability.

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Re:Please link board user names to their band prof - 2008/02/10 11:10 I have a problem similar to this with blogs, i normally just open all the latest blogs in new tabs, but I can't figure out a way to get to their user profile after I read about all the awesomeness they have done.

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Re:Please link board user names to their band prof - 2008/02/18 20:37 I've got to agree with ilovejen. It took me probably a couple weeks to figure out that the tiny man icon was a link to the profile page. Until then I thought that I was required to search the Participating Artists section to find them.

It seems fairly standard that the user name (and avatar sometimes) should link to the profile. But I'm guessing that RPM uses some sort of "out of the box" tool for the forum, where the "tiny man" is the default link, and the admins here might not have much time on their hands to fine tune all the little things like that...

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Re:Please link board user names to their band prof - 2008/02/19 04:07 Definitely the picture should link back to the user.

Just like last year, about this time the RPM staff starts to get more and more quiet, I think mostly because they're just beginning to be overwhelmed by it all. I have read about five blog entries and two or three bored posts and I'm out of time (this is all about time, isn't it?). Can you imagine trying to read all this crap and then do something about it? I'm pretty sure they have real jobs in addition to this so cut them some slack.

But you're right, the little man icon is pretty nonsensical. What were "they" thinking?

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Re:Please link board user names to their band prof - 2008/02/19 04:37 Got to agree, plus:

It's even worse on people's blogs, where there is no little profile man icon.

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Re:Please link board user names to their band prof - 2008/02/27 04:57 Wow! The little green guy takes me to your profile! News to me! I was all about waiting until the particular person came online to go to their profile or getting their through my connections!

I agree that in a perfect world, it should be linked, but whatever

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Re:Please link board user names to their band profile - 2008/02/27 05:14 ilovejen wrote:
I am tired of searching for user's bands that have nothing in common with their forum name.

Ugh.

I'm hip!

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