Make more of author profiles à la /authors/$handle

[tomayac]

Wanted to comment and suggest we make more out of author profiles: /authors/$handle/ (example) currently just lists articles. It could become more of a "home page" with ones status updates (short blog posts), embedded Twitter feed (optional), and of course articles as is the case now.

The IndieWeb person in me wants these pages to have an RSS feed, so someone could follow individual authors.

[rachelandrew]

I like this, especially if we are doing more short form posts. I'm really keen to see more of the people within DevRel reflected on our sites.

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[matthiasrohmer]

#7590 had a request to also include LinkedIn links on author pages.

[tunetheweb]

Some suggestions:

• Add Mastodon links (we have these on D.C.C. already).
• Link to D.C.C. profile/posts
• Search/filter of posts
• Short bio to supplement job title
• Include create date as well as updated date on posts (currently looks a little weird to order by created date, but list updated date so order is not obvious)

[matthiasrohmer]

We need to make sure that all changes we do are failing gracefully for old/abandoned/one-time author profiles.

[rachelandrew]

+1 for linking to posts on d.c.c.

as mentioned in Chat:

Could we add the ability to pull in stuff from RSS or JSON? For example all my past speaking engagements are here: https://noti.st/rachelandrew/presentations with a json feed: https://noti.st/rachelandrew/presentations.json I imagine other people have content like that that would be great to include.

Also, see this issue of providing editor credit: GoogleChrome/webdev-infra#61 those should also link to the page. Most of our editors are also authors too, so edited things likely shouldn't have the same prominence of authored things, but perhaps a small list, or link to a separate page that lists all.

[argyleink]

+1 for linking to posts on d.c.c.

• links to personal websites could pull their favicon?
• add any patterns the author made too?

[devnook]

Related 2 requests:
Let's add internal-only banner to make it easier for folks to request edits to their profile.
Non-design: Use rel=me microformats on the links so that they can be verified for Mastodon.

[tomayac]

Non-design: Use rel=me microformats on the links so that they can be verified for Mastodon.

I think at least some people on the team have a similar setup like mine:

1. Blog
2. GitHub
3. Twitter
4. [ One left ]

Now I need to choose what to put there, and all I have is one slot. Could we have a generic landing page that pulls in all posts across both sites?

[tomayac]

Rachel's proposal to add RSS feeds (plural) may solve the issue. On whatever profile, you could pull in articles from the particular other site via RSS. We'd need support for more than one feed if we want to allow people to pull in their personal blogs, slide feeds, etc.