Tell HN: Fill out your profile, good things come of it

[lionhearted]

I've connected with some fascinating people from HN, maybe 1/3rd of the time people write to me and 2/3rds I write to them. Had some really cool conversations, got book recommendations, talked about projects, lots of good stuff. Sometimes a person doesn't have their profile filled out and you have to dig through the comments and submissions hoping they submitted their own site or posted their email. Sometimes even after that, there's nothing there - then you've got to try to google their username. Nothing there? Well, no dropping them a line then.

That sucks - you'll miss out on meeting some cool people. Take the 20 seconds to put an email in your profile or a website that you run.

[sp332]

Remember that the "email" field is not visible to other users! Put your address in your "about" box if you want people to see it.

[JayNeely → sp332]

There's a standing feature request about this that could use more attention: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1017933

[jiganti → sp332]

Yeah this confused me originally, most people let you know if you don't have it in there though.

[msluyter → sp332]

Just curious; if made publicly viewable, what's to prevent spammers from creating an HN account and harvesting these?

[lanstein → msluyter]

obfuscation

[acqq]

There's also http://www.hackernewsers.com/ where you can fill your profile

[danest]

Thanks this made me update mine just now =)

[photon_off]

Did you get my email?

[bitemyapp]

Don't forget that http://hnofficehours.com exists as a way to let people get ahold of you and to indicate when you're specifically available to chit-chat. It also helps in finding people with specific skillsets.

Disclaimer: I worked on hnofficehours with ezl and guz.

http://hnofficehours.com/search/ if you want to search for a specific subject/skill to discuss with someone. You register for the site using your existing hackerne.ws account like hnhackers.