Add Mastodon handle field to Profile editor > Social Media and Accounts

[chreliot]

Our academic community has moved en masse from Twitter to Mastodon in the last month.

Consider adding a field "Mastodon handle" in the Profile editor > Social Media and Accounts.

[joemull]

We have recently come across the need to create more flexible links to social media profiles when redesigning the OLH website.

What I'd like to see is a repeatable field on each user account that lets you:

• set a label for your link, like "Mastodon" or "Website" or "Bluesky"
• enter a URL

The URL would need to be validated as a full URL, not a username, so that Janeway templates do not have to know the syntax of a bunch of different social media platform URLs. Social media domains are not stable, and so we shouldn't hard-code domains into our templates.

For this to work with current data, I would suggest migrating our separate fields for Twitter, LinkedIn, GitHub, etc. to the new structure, and filling out known domains so that the resulting data contains full URLs.