What are the best ways to roll out styled icon/profile pages?

[foxfirefey]

So, one of the projects Styles has been working on is custom icon and profile pages. The stunning exor674 has implemented a backend for custom icon pages; after we implement them for all styles, we will be working on custom profile pages.

One of the concerns is that a good amount of people are going to not see icon pages--and especially profile pages, which are difficult enough to do effectively without shoehorning them into a style--in styles. But we don't want to multiply too many options. Possible strategies are:

• Add a separate display option for icon and profile pages, or just profile pages since icon pages are far less likely to be troublesome in styles.


• Don't add any options. All styles will have the ability to display icon and profile pages in the site style, just like entry pages. Somebody who doesn't want to view them can use the style=mine sticky display and set them thus. This will not satisfy the people who don't want to set display options for style=mine, but it's probably the fewest options.


• Hooking them up to the entry display option--probably not a good idea.
• Hooking them up to the journal display option--also not a good idea, since few people will be using the site view for their journal.

Other ideas welcome!

Comments

[lorax]

I would say add a separate display option. It's probably the most time consuming to implement, but it's also the safest, since people react better to change when there's always easy, accessible options to not-change.

[turlough]

I agree. Particularly when it's something so comparatively big as a completely new way to display pages that's looked the same more-or-less "forever".

[msilverstar]

+1!

[instantramen]

This. As much as I'd prefer the second suggested implementation, styled profile and icon pages seems to me to be one of those changes that fits into the "let people opt-in if they want it" window.

[foxfirefey]

As far as I can tell it'll be opt-in to display, but opt-out to view.