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Share your contact information!

Posted: July 7th, 2011, 4:37 pm
by fl00d3d
Connect with your friends more efficiently by sharing your contact information.

All of us gamers know the routine:
  • "What's your MSN?"
  • "Add me on Steam."
  • "Follow me through Xfire"
...etc etc.

Nothing will ever beat the good 'ol fashioned way of simply asking the person for their information. HOWEVER, we can make it easier on each other by providing this information up front. That's why we've created a LOT of topics over the last few years listing xfire username, MSN usernames, etc.

So why don't we make this easier?

I am going to begin adding custom profile fields to the forums (and thus, website). This means that you can go into your User Control Panel and edit your profile to fill in all of this information. It's all voluntary. So if you don't want people to know your information (or change your mind later) ... simply don't fill it out or remove it. But if you want anyone to be able to add you on MSN or Xfire (or you want to quickly share the info with your friend), now you just have to say "look at my profile on the forums" and they'll find it all. Easy peasy.

Eventually I will make a display page where you can get complete lists and such that make it easier to find friends and their information a lot easier. But for now, this should help tremendously.

One thing you will notice is that SOME fields such as the "Teamspeak Unique ID" are PRIVATE due to security concerns. This means that ONLY you and Administrators will be able to see it. In the future, voluntary information such as this will give you special features that we plan to add to the website. So please fill out your profiles as accurately and completely as possible.

If you have any custom profile field suggestions or problems, please report them in this thread. All old threads that contain contact information will soon be archived.

Enjoy!

Re: Share your contact information!

Posted: July 8th, 2011, 11:39 am
by toadsdaki
Nice. Will there be an area near our avatar on the forums? I see xfire is located there, will we be able to view msn/steam etc... Also will there be a way to add custom fields that are viewable only by clicking on the profile? Say I want people to add me on LoL and Starcraft 2, I could just type those in and add them to my profile page.
And lastly, can we make it so that our names on the forums lead to the profile page? xD I'm always clicking on it! Then realize i have to click on profile....woops!

Re: Share your contact information!

Posted: July 8th, 2011, 3:43 pm
by fl00d3d
Yeah, but you'll have to start a suggestion thread for that so I can keep track of it. It's something I'll have to get around to. (clickable name)

As far as the other stuff, pretty much anything is possible. I just don't want to over-clutter the forums (including avatar space), so for the most part people will have to view your profile to see all that information. I just figured Xfire is a pretty generic and popular gaming tool that is universally desired. So I made that one visible here.

Re: Share your contact information!

Posted: July 8th, 2011, 4:33 pm
by toadsdaki
Ya I understand that, I was thinkin put the big ones visible up near the avatar and the rest viewable when you click on their profile. Big ones meaning xfire/msn/steam o.O

Re: Share your contact information!

Posted: July 9th, 2011, 11:57 am
by fl00d3d
As popular as MSN is amongst gamers, I don't think it's really a "big one". Steam, maybe. I dunno, I'll do more thinking on stuff like that later. For now, just enjoy the new feature. ;)

Re: Share your contact information!

Posted: July 22nd, 2011, 3:32 pm
by JustTalentx
Add me on Steam brah, just_talent is account name and profile name is JustTalentx