How do I customize my profile info?

April 18, 2006 12:04 AM

I'm sorry if this has been covered or is painfully obvious, but in searching MeTa and generally scouring my profile page, I can't find where to click to change my information. The one MeTa thread I did find on the subject (here) says there's a "customize" link. It seems this has been replaced with "Preferences," since the url ends in "customize.cfm," but when I click there, I get nothing but the set of Features, Links, and Sites links. Help?
posted by Igor XA to Bugs at 12:04 AM (28 comments total)

It does seem to have disappeared, actually.
posted by neckro23 at 12:08 AM on April 18, 2006

I can see the place to change my e-mail perfectly fine when I click on Preferences. Maybe a problem with your browser settings?
posted by Effigy2000 at 12:17 AM on April 18, 2006

Works fine for me. What browser/OS are you using?

[Camino, OS X]
posted by brundlefly at 12:25 AM on April 18, 2006

I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.2 (latest release, I believe) on WinXP, sp2.

I just checked it in IE, and I'm getting the same results.
posted by Igor XA at 12:37 AM on April 18, 2006

Works fine for me as well. (Camino, OS X)
posted by keijo at 12:41 AM on April 18, 2006

I see it fine, too, on the preferences page. Firefox 1.5.0.2 for XP. What do you see on the prefs?
posted by Plutor at 1:11 AM on April 18, 2006

I see this
posted by Igor XA at 1:39 AM on April 18, 2006

I'm seeing the same screen as Igor XA just posted. Two different Macs; Firefox on one of them, Safari and Camino on the other.
posted by peewee at 1:47 AM on April 18, 2006

When I posted up thread, I was at work, where I am forced to use Internet Explorer. It worked fine.

At home I use Firefox... and it still works.

Strange.
posted by Effigy2000 at 2:08 AM on April 18, 2006

You people who can't see the forms, what do you see when you look at the source code of the page?

Do you see the text below, for instance?

If you'd like to change the font face currently being used, or the font sizes of the body text and the smaller text ...
posted by AmbroseChapel at 2:41 AM on April 18, 2006

Works fine for me. Possibly something to with this (couple of threads down)?
posted by MetaMonkey at 3:33 AM on April 18, 2006

I have the same problem. And "no" to AmbroseChapel. It's all missing.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 3:50 AM on April 18, 2006

Well if it's missing in the source code, the problem's not a browser thing. Is there any common thread for the people it doesn't work for?

[WFM/FF 1.5.02/OSX 10.3.9 BTW]
posted by AmbroseChapel at 4:24 AM on April 18, 2006

Work ok for me.
[Safari 2.0.3/FF 1.5, OSX 10.4.6]
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 4:41 AM on April 18, 2006

works for me. metafilter.com is resolving to 70.86.84.162 - is it possible others are picking up a different machine with development/old code?
posted by andrew cooke at 6:12 AM on April 18, 2006

I figure it works for some usernames and is broken for other. It's broken for me.
posted by smackfu at 6:17 AM on April 18, 2006

Broken for me. Safari 2.0.3, OS X 10.4.6
posted by emelenjr at 6:25 AM on April 18, 2006

Broken for me too, I get the same screen as Igor XA.

/XP Pro, firefox
posted by LambChop at 6:51 AM on April 18, 2006

Works for me on two XP machines with Firefox.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 6:51 AM on April 18, 2006

another possibility - works for me, and i use the white theme (knowing beloved #1 it might not be pure css...)
posted by andrew cooke at 6:56 AM on April 18, 2006

One of the XP machines it works for me on uses the white theme, the other, not.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 7:16 AM on April 18, 2006

I was beefing up some possible security holes and still working the bugs out. It should work if your id and password cookies are correct.

I'll look at it more this morning to see what is tripping up other users.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 7:45 AM on April 18, 2006

lemme know if it is fixed for anyone that was getting nothing.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:03 AM on April 18, 2006

yup, it works now!
posted by soma lkzx at 8:36 AM on April 18, 2006

All better now!
posted by peewee at 9:41 AM on April 18, 2006

Works! Thanks!
posted by Igor XA at 10:56 AM on April 18, 2006

Works now for me, too.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 12:47 PM on April 18, 2006

I would thank Matt, but I don't want to seem like a toady. I will call him an idiot instead¹.
posted by Eideteker at 12:50 PM on April 18, 2006