I am in the process of creating Forum Software and am now at the question of User Profiles. What should be customizable? What would a user expect?
From the top of my head I can think of:
Is it expected from a website to provide some sort of freely customizable "About Me" page? Would leaving it out raise some eyebrows? Should there be a dedicated page parallel to the user where they can put information about them? (Like a different tab?)
The reason I am asking is that if you visit another profile there can be various intents. But mostly one of contact information, or Statistics (how trustworthy is that user). Does it make sense to provide a large degree of freedom considering that one might be greeted with a distracting profile?
Or is the personal UX worth the possible trade off in readability.