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In profiles, replace Google+ by social media that is more relevant today

Open nekohayo opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

Google+ was shut down in 2019, so it no longer makes sense to offer it as a form field in the user profile's website section.

If you want to offer social media fields in addition to the user's personal website/blog/etc., it should probably be Twitter, Mastodon and LinkedIn (I personally do not want to suggest Facebook or any of its associated properties like Instagram due to their simultaneously dystopian and superficial nature, but I guess those could also be available as fields if you must)?

nekohayo avatar Oct 24 '21 12:10 nekohayo

@nekohayo This has been posted in the BeWelcome forums as well. To change this the database needs to be adapted so someone needs to take a look and invest some time into it.

thisismeonmounteverest avatar Oct 26 '21 17:10 thisismeonmounteverest

We had user feedback on the forum, related to the social media field, so I post it here: it looks like posting links in this field doesn't always work correctly. There is no link created when entering a url in "other" field, and when entering your homepage starting with https it creates a link with http.

gabriel-BW avatar Jan 15 '22 19:01 gabriel-BW

even in the phone number fuield it is not possible to put the '+'

Daucus-gh avatar Jan 15 '22 20:01 Daucus-gh