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  • bmah
    shots FIRED
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    • Oct 2003
    • 8448

    #1

    can't access anyone's public profile

    On the post of any user, you can normally access both his/her FFR profile and his/her public profile, the latter which is where some more personal contact information is usually found.

    However, the link to a user's public profile seem to redirect you to his/her FFR profile instead. At the moment, it's impossible to access anyone's public profile.

    For example, here's Kinx's FFR profile: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/profile/Kinx/

    And here's the link that should normally take you to his public profile: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/....php?u=1651857

    But that'll redirect you to the first link, the FFR profile.


    Any fix on this please?
  • HammyMcSquirrel
    Everlong
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    • Dec 2004
    • 3833

    #2
    Re: can't access anyone's public profile

    Forum profiles were purposely disabled because we have the FFR profiles. The FFR profiles have to capacity to provide much more than the forum profiles could, so there really was no use for them.

    Was there a certain convenience to the forum profiles that isn't on the FFR profiles that you'd like to see?

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    • bmah
      shots FIRED
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      • Oct 2003
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      #3
      Re: can't access anyone's public profile

      Well for one, personal info that was voluntarily provided by a member, such as email, IM contacts, and so on are nonexistent in the regular FFR profile. There are no specific places for these information.

      Reason why I even click on "see public profile" is because that page provided such info that was never shown on FFR profiles.

      edit: might as well delete public profile links
      Last edited by bmah; 03-26-2011, 11:54 PM.

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      • HammyMcSquirrel
        Everlong
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        • Dec 2004
        • 3833

        #4
        Re: can't access anyone's public profile

        Instant messaging handles are on the FFR profiles already. (The icons appear on your gamercard when you put in the information under the user cp.) The MSN icon is even on your profile. xD There isn't a spot for an e-mail so I suppose there could be a field for that.

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        • bmah
          shots FIRED
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          • Oct 2003
          • 8448

          #5
          Re: can't access anyone's public profile

          I was about to say then, that it hasn't been brought up to a lot of people's attention. Those small icons are not very noticeable, and any public announcement that may have been brought up regarding the deletion of public profiles must've been low-key.

          I'd prefer if I saw explicit links instead.

          such as

          [email protected]

          As opposed to clicking on a 17x17 pixel icon, which finally reveals that info.

          All in all, just a case of my being unaware of these things, so w/e

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          • leonid
            I am leonid
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            • Oct 2008
            • 8080

            #6
            Re: can't access anyone's public profile

            I've been waiting for someone else to say something about this.. So it wasn't a bug



            Proud member of Team No

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            • Velocity
              Doing the wrong thing the right way since 2010.
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              • Jul 2007
              • 1817

              #7
              Re: can't access anyone's public profile

              Would you like me to add the contact info including email into the Details part of the profiles. It would allow for the full thing being shown.

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              • HammyMcSquirrel
                Everlong
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                • Dec 2004
                • 3833

                #8
                Re: can't access anyone's public profile

                Originally posted by Velocity
                Would you like me to add the contact info including email into the Details part of the profiles. It would allow for the full thing being shown.
                Yeah, that would be cool. It's the only thing I can think of at this point that the forum profiles displayed that the FFR profiles currently don't display.

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                • bmah
                  shots FIRED
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                  • Oct 2003
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                  #9
                  Re: can't access anyone's public profile

                  Yeah, that would definitely be a nice thing to do. In any case, the email would only be shown if a person willingly does so himself/herself, so no confidentiality issues here.

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                  • Sprite-
                    HAVE ME WITH VODKA
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                    • Aug 2005
                    • 7316

                    #10
                    Re: can't access anyone's public profile

                    Agreed, email should not be shown by default. Only if the user chooses to show it.

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                    • jimerax
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                      • Nov 2003
                      • 8185

                      #11
                      Re: can't access anyone's public profile

                      Originally posted by HammyMcSquirrel
                      It's the only thing I can think of at this point that the forum profiles displayed that the FFR profiles currently don't display.
                      Things like "forum groups", "who visited" are the ones too, I don't think these are necessary at all though.

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                      • HammyMcSquirrel
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                        • Dec 2004
                        • 3833

                        #12
                        Re: can't access anyone's public profile

                        Originally posted by jimerax
                        Things like "forum groups", "who visited" are the ones too, I don't think these are necessary at all though.
                        Oh yeah. The recent visitors thing actually may be of interest to people. Someone suggested that for the FFR profiles some years ago. I don't think it got enough support for the old administration to even consider it, though. I'm pretty much indifferent, but maybe people would want that.

                        As for the social groups... I have no idea why those weren't disabled in the first place lmao

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                        • Velocity
                          Doing the wrong thing the right way since 2010.
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                          • Jul 2007
                          • 1817

                          #13
                          Re: can't access anyone's public profile

                          Full text based contact are added into the "User's Details" block.

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                          • bmah
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                            • Oct 2003
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                            #14
                            Re: can't access anyone's public profile

                            Hmm, I see you AIM on your profile details. If you wanted to show your email address, it'd show up too right?

                            As for me, don't see where to change those details...

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                            • HammyMcSquirrel
                              Everlong
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                              • Dec 2004
                              • 3833

                              #15
                              Re: can't access anyone's public profile

                              Originally posted by bmah
                              Hmm, I see you AIM on your profile details. If you wanted to show your email address, it'd show up too right?

                              As for me, don't see where to change those details...
                              If you're asking about the IM info, filling that in here and saving the changes will update it on your FFR profile. Not sure how the e-mail display will be toggled, but I hope it'll be an area under the profile settings where we can type it in.

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