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On our way to a fully responsive Stack Overflow, we just shipped some changes to the user profile. We won’t be enabling responsiveness just yet, but the top portion will be ready to be squishy.

I hope these changes are low impact on our way to a fully responsive profile. Think of this as more a realignment than a redesign.

Some changes that you’ll see immediately:

1. Basic reach-related stats moved to underneath the avatar near reputation.
2. Various links and other stats are now under the display name and some stats behind are only viewable by you or a moderator.
3. We got rid of the “Apparently, this user prefers to keep an air of mystery about them”, instead showing no biography. If it’s your profile and you don’t have a biography, we show a call to action to add one.
4. We’ve added an Edit profile button under the avatar if you’re a moderator or you’re viewing your own profile.
5. Biographies now have way more room horizontally, but we still cap to vertical scrolling.
6. The consecutive visit calendar UI has gone away. This is some super legacy UI that isn’t remotely mobile-friendly. The statistic will continue to be displayed for badge-earning purposes, but I think it’s a potentially toxic metric.
7. Dropped the profile views metric entirely. It’s a vanity metric and we don’t think it’s worth keeping around.

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Update 1

I’ve restored the profile age to all and fixed a few bugs y’all reported. I’ll be addressing individual answers as best as I can.

Original post

On our way to a fully responsive Stack Overflow, we just shipped some changes to the user profile. We won’t be enabling responsiveness just yet, but the top portion will be ready to be squishy.

I hope these changes are low impact on our way to a fully responsive profile. Think of this as more a realignment than a redesign.

Some changes that you’ll see immediately:

1. Basic reach-related stats moved to underneath the avatar near reputation.
2. Various links and other stats are now under the display name and some stats behind are only viewable by you or a moderator.
3. We got rid of the “Apparently, this user prefers to keep an air of mystery about them”, instead showing no biography. If it’s your profile and you don’t have a biography, we show a call to action to add one.
4. We’ve added an Edit profile button under the avatar if you’re a moderator or you’re viewing your own profile.
5. Biographies now have way more room horizontally, but we still cap to vertical scrolling.
6. The consecutive visit calendar UI has gone away. This is some super legacy UI that isn’t remotely mobile-friendly. The statistic will continue to be displayed for badge-earning purposes, but I think it’s a potentially toxic metric.
7. Dropped the profile views metric entirely. It’s a vanity metric and we don’t think it’s worth keeping around.

Before

After