Questions tagged [profile-edit]
Use this tag when your question is about editing your profile and/or the propagation of those edits across your profiles within the SE network
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Clicking the edit button on my Area 51 profile gives a server error page
I click the edit button, and a request is made for https://area51.stackexchange.com/users/edit/<my-user-id>, and the server returns with an HTTP 302 redirect to https://area51.stackexchange.com/...
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Attempting to update my profile ends in error
I attempted to update my Title and About Me sections in my profile network-wide in order to remove the “I work at Stack Overflow” messages, but when I click “save and copy changes to all public ...
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Title on Profile — Stack Overflow vs all other sites
It has previously been stated that the Title feature is only present if the site has Jobs, but while Jobs has been completely gone for over a year, Stack Overflow profiles still show a Title, and it ...
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Unable to edit user profile: "Unusual error updating your profile"
When I try to edit my profile on any SE site, I get the following error:
Oops! There was a problem updating your profile:
unusual error updating your profile -- please try again!
If it's relevant, ...
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Creation of universal user profile to supplement site-specific profiles
Problem
Profiles are now entirely site-specific so you have two options - laboriously maintain site-specific profiles, or use a common profile everywhere. You can't maintain a few site-specific ...
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Let us know when we can change display name again
Once upon a time, we could see recently used (90 days back) display names, then according to this, to know when we can change again, in case 30 days didn't yet pass since last used name.
However, ...
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Why is "Save and copy changes to all public communities" not copying GitHub and Twitter usernames?
I experienced this bug after creating profiles in a few Stack Exchange communities, editing my Stack Overflow profile and synching the information to all other communities using Save and ...
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Broken Github icon on the My logins page
I have a GitHub login. When going to My logins tab on the profile, I see this:
As you can see, the icon for GitHub is broken. Can this please be fixed?
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Profile edit page still says "edit your profile" when editing someone else's profile as a moderator
When a moderator opens the page to edit a user's profile info, all text is in the second person, like it is in the moderator's personal profile.
For example:
Edit your profile
This should be ...
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Location auto fill showing old name of a country
When editing my profile and changing the location field, I have accidentally bumped into "Swaziland" still being listed as a country - although the official name as far as I can recall has been ...
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Display id or name of social account on "My Logins" page
If I connect a Google account it shows the email. But it doesn't show information about Facebook/VK accounts.
Could you display the account name or id for these social accounts? Or, even better, ...
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Location wasn't copied to other sites after pressing "Save and copy changes to all public communities"
On es SO, I changed the Location to Ukhta, Russia
Pressed "Save and copy changes to all public communities".
On Users page of en SO it shows correctly.
But on other sites (e.g. on MSE) it ...
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Refreshing the "Edit Email Settings" page doesn't refresh the email field if previously it was cleared (without pressing save button)
Go to Edit Email Settings page.
Clear the email field, but don't press "Save".
Refresh the page. Field will be empty.
Only if you open another page and after that open Edit Email Settings page again,...
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The error messages overlap each other on the "Change Password" page
Write something in the 2nd or 3d text field.
Delete it.
The error messages overlap each other.