Hey JP, thanks for your thoughts! When you’re saying it’s a little too much work, how many weeks are we talking about? I can understand how the profile upload part might take a bit long (1-2 weeks?).
For adding in the profile pictures beside author’s usernames, I would think there isn’t any big UI updating that has to be done there. It’s only in the comments section that things might be a bit trickier. I’ve made mockups for my own suggestion here, including mockups for showing these on the frontpage, post header, and two different options for how to show pictures on comments. Even just showing pictures on the frontpage and beside the author’s names in a forum post page would be great, if those are easier to do than adding on the comments.
But yeah it’s good that you flag that the value of the forum comes from people writing posts and more people reading them. I’m also curious about what authors think on if they would prefer to have their face in posts, as well as if they prefer to see commenters’ faces!
Hey JP, thanks for your thoughts! When you’re saying it’s a little too much work, how many weeks are we talking about? I can understand how the profile upload part might take a bit long (1-2 weeks?).
For adding in the profile pictures beside author’s usernames, I would think there isn’t any big UI updating that has to be done there. It’s only in the comments section that things might be a bit trickier. I’ve made mockups for my own suggestion here, including mockups for showing these on the frontpage, post header, and two different options for how to show pictures on comments. Even just showing pictures on the frontpage and beside the author’s names in a forum post page would be great, if those are easier to do than adding on the comments.
But yeah it’s good that you flag that the value of the forum comes from people writing posts and more people reading them. I’m also curious about what authors think on if they would prefer to have their face in posts, as well as if they prefer to see commenters’ faces!
+50 points for making UI mockups, makes it much more likely to get the feature.