Add social networks to home nodes

[Lady_Aleena]

Recently I was asked by another monk for a Twitter to PerlMonks user handle decoder. I would love to be able to store my social network user names by my avatar instead of mixing it in with the text of my profile. Also, if a Monk fills in those fields, it might also be nice for a meta page with a list like Monks with Twitter accounts.

Twitter	Lady_Aleena
Google+	LadyAleena Noyb
Tumblr	LadyAleena
GetGlue	Lady_Aleena
Foursquare	Lady_Aleena

Facebook, Linkdin, etc. can be optional fields too with the accompanying "Monks with X accounts" pages. Just a thought.

[Albannach]

While it may not be the ideal interface, what you seek is already possible and has been for years. If you look at my and many other home nodes you will see numerous non-standard items listed by the image. The trick is that these are all coded into the location field in your profile - give it a try!

[sundialsvc4]

To echo this sentiment ... I, for one, am not keen to see “log in with Facebook!” or other similar notions in this highly topic-specific forum.   I frankly do not believe that it would have a return-on-investment worthy of the necessary time and energy, for this site and its mission.   If you want to chain to your other social-networking personas, you can already do that on your profile page and/or signature.   Beyond this, I don’t see things that will really (IMHO) advance the site’s core-mission of providing information and answers with regard to the Perl language ... a mission which (despite its many quirks) it already fulfills.   (That’s just my opinion, and of course, “ like as–hles, everybody has one.”)

[jdporter]

"I'll rip you a new opinion!" - me