I think it would be simpler to just allow people to add a short description of themselves to the user page. (And then maybe later the hovering thing can be added if people want that.)
Agreed; if we had that feature, then we could write the Greasemonkey (or whatever) extension as well, since it would just scrub their user page for the description.
...huh. OK, how on earth do you set up that “profile” thing you have? I can’t find it anywhere in the preferences. I think we need to promote this a bit more.
I think it would be simpler to just allow people to add a short description of themselves to the user page. (And then maybe later the hovering thing can be added if people want that.)
Agreed; if we had that feature, then we could write the Greasemonkey (or whatever) extension as well, since it would just scrub their user page for the description.
Don’t we have that as part of the linked wiki userpages?
...huh. OK, how on earth do you set up that “profile” thing you have? I can’t find it anywhere in the preferences. I think we need to promote this a bit more.
As far as I know, you just register the exact same account name on the LW wiki, and create your userpage, and it’s transcluded over automatically.
Hm. OK, I made myself a user page on the Wiki a few hours ago, and I still have no profile here. Do you know how long this is supposed to take?
Second, minute, hour, day are the usual Schelling points for things updating. In this case, when I click on your username I get
So I’m guessing the syncing is done daily.