When navigating to your own network profile and selecting Update profile info from a profile which has formatting i.e. links, it doesn't seem the formatting is copied over to the Stack&nbsp;Exchange profile.  I imagine the generic Stack&nbsp;Exchange profile is different from Meta.StackExchange where Meta is an actual community, so it has its own profile. I'm not sure if this is expected? I am filing a bug anyway, but feel free to close if this is expected.  Stack Overflow Profile:    Stack Exchange Profile:
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I noticed that, unlike my profile on every SE site, when I push the profile changes to stackexchange.com, there are no links and nothing is clickable. This appears to be .  Although it may reduce spam, it renders my SE network profile useless. I primarily use SE for professional sites, so I link to my LinkedIn and Stack Overflow Career profiles in my About Me. I also link to a public Amazon Wishlist and PayPal donation link (yes, I've made about $5 from what I'm guessing is Stack Exchange). However, all of these are dead on the main SE profile.  Externally, I tend to link to my SE profile instead of individual site profiles. Since I'm in software development, I prefer to link to one profile instead of five profiles (Software Engineering, Stack Overflow, Project Management, SQA and Testing, The Workplace). However, it means that anyone who comes into this link sees mention of a profile on LinkedIn or Stack Overflow Careers as well as a way to give me things for my contributions and can't do anything.  This renders my SE profile mostly useless. It links to all of my SE accounts, but people can't use my profile to find me on other services as I intend. If anyone were to find it referenced somewhere, they would hit a small blocker. That, to me, defeats the point of a profile.  I understand the need for anti-spam measures, but the only way to pull a profile is to pull it from an existing SE site. Reputation should be considered. I'm not sure what the right thing to do is, but either reputation on the network should be considered and if it meets a threshold, links should be enabled. Alternately, reputation information should come from the site where the profile is pulled from and if it meets a threshold, links should be enabled.  Regardless, a fully functional cross-site profile is essential to me to effectively use SE as a small part of a portfolio.
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Here's what happened to me just now:   (It took me an embarrassingly long time looking for an edit option on my meta profile to get to this step though)  So, I realize that it makes sense that we don't have separate profile information for site Meta accounts. And it also makes sense that we do have separate settings options for Meta (there are meta-only tags, people might be less interested in the questions and not want to receive email updates, etc.) But, instead of having the functionality change based on which site you're on, perhaps we could just make it so that you can edit your main-site profile from Meta? Or maybe keep them different, but make it a smaller difference: after clicking the &quot;Edit profile and settings&quot; horizontal tab on Meta, the vertical tab that you start out on is &quot;Preferences&quot; rather than &quot;Edit Profile&quot; by default, and if you click on &quot;Edit Profile&quot; you're automatically taken back to the main site page for that.
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When clicking from  on network profile, the result is Page not found. Presumably the user has an account only on Area51.  I reported a similar issue . That issue got , but that one was about the case where a users' only account was on a private beta site, and the broken link I'm presently reporting is when a users' only account is on Area51.
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On the left sidebar, the first item of the menu is my profile pic + nickname. It seems to be a fake link. Wouldn't be cool if this link goes to my profile instead of doing nothing?  Or maybe, instead of a "non-link", display a summary of my profile (points, number of badges, profile views, helpful tags, etc..).
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My company is in the process of migrating from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 -- currently the environment is mixed, OWA is up and running, and AutoConfig is working properly.  For our Exchange 2007 -> 2010 upgrade I was able to pre-build the Exchange account profile using the Office Customization Tool to define an Exchange account (as well as some fake-POP accounts that we use for alternate SMTP sending) into a dynamic profile that was created when Outlook was first run.  When trying to do this same procedure for 2013, I am unable to open Outlook using the new default profile. Depending on how I tweak the settings I am greeted with various error messages that range from "The Exchange server might be down for maintenance," or "you must connect with the current profile before opening the OST," to "Cannot open the default set of folders", and once I was given a network password authorization box that would not accept any account/password combo that it was given.  If I create a new profile and allow it auto-configure, it does so successfully and Outlook will start up without any problems.  I suspect that the problem is how Ex2013 uses unique (per-mailbox) addressing to describe the 'Server' field in the mail profile -- The TechNet documentation states that the 'Server' entry in OCT should point to an Exchange server, and that it will be corrected when the profile first connects, however that does not appear to be happening. The 2010 CAS is providing proxy services between the two Exchange server environments, so it might be possible that the authorization is not being forwarded through there as well.  I have scoured the internet for a use case that was successful in deploying an Ex2013 account using the OCT, but I cannot find anything useful that helps me understand my situation.  Allowing the current user profiles to upgrade is not an option, as we are building new VMs that will not carry over the profile information; first-run autoconfigure is also not an option because we need the fake-POP accounts to be added ahead of time to the profiles.  Do we know if the 2013 OCT is able to preconfigure Exchange accounts? If not that is a huge step backwards in my opinion, as this feature is paramount to our upgrade path. Any thoughts would be helpful, I am happy to provide more information upon request.
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I understand the reason why Stack Exchange has different sites to separate  from  or . I understand too why the reputation is associated on each site.   Why do I have to create a new  for each web site? I know that when I create a new account, it is automatically associated to my other accounts. But, is there a reason why, when I originally create a user on the first site, I can't go on another site with this user?
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Is there a way to quickly save all my Stack Exchange content across all Stack Exchange sites, as hundreds of HTML pages? (for me probably 15 or 20 sites: SO, dsp.SE, unix.SE, etc.)?  The ideal way would be one .HTML file for each question that I asked / answered / commented? What would be the ideal tool for that?    Remark: I've already read interesting questions like  but it doesn't exactly answer my concern here.
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I made an account on Stack Exchange but I can't edit my network profile.  How can I edit this?
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I recently tried to visit a person's profile from chat room.  I clicked the link to his profile(points to area51) and the link is dead.    The link points to discuss.area51.stackexchange.com and the link should be area51.meta.stackexchange.com (as pointed by Shadow Wizard in Tavern on meta).  This link points to an HTTPS error page       I am able to reproduce this issue only for users with main profile in area51.   And I think someone missed it in the recent meta url changes from meta.x.se to x.meta.se
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I see that the  contain some usful links:        But it seems that it's kinda weird and out of context. When exactly would a user that want to contact Stackexchange will find these links useful? What is so special about those links as opposed to a link to  for example?
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If you Google my name, it comes up with a link to my ServerFault profile first, then StackOverflow profile, then LinkedIn, then website, etc.  I've heard it's common practice for employers to Google your name, so I'd like the results to show the most relevant information. My ServerFault account contains nothing, and there's no reason for an employer to see my Meta profile (which is further down, but still on page 1). Having those links show up in the results isn't relevant or helpful to someone searching for information about me.  What I'd like is to prevent Google (and other search engines) from spidering/showing my *Overflow site profiles except StackOverflow, or be able to control this somehow per *Overflow site.  Honestly, I don't know if this is even possible, as I'm not familiar with SEO and such. I know this kind of thing would never work perfectly, but as long as it works for the major search engines, that's all that matters.  I suppose a way around this is to simply remove my name from the profiles I don't want to show up... but that doesn't really solve the problem. For example, I could end up building a good rep here on Meta, to which I would want to attach my name for other users to see, but is an employer (or anyone else in the general public, for that matter) really going to care about what goes on here? Highly unlikely. I think employers would be more interested in things that relate to the tasks for which I would be hired. It isn't important information even though it may be ranked higher on Google.
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is my profile page on Stack Overflow. I have accounts on all 104 Stack Exchange sites including the newest ones. But the profile page is showing only 101 accounts instead of 104. Is this a possible bug? I must also add that all those accounts are quite old. EDIT  page on Stack Exchange shows all the 104 accounts, so I believe none of the accounts were deleted.
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I just visited  and noticed that my profile picture is not the same as on all other sites.  According to  the image will be synchronized when synchronizing the complete profile. I did that but the image is still the same.  Then I wanted to change the image in the Area51 profile directly - but I can only change to a gravatar image and can't use the new and fancy Stack Exchange image.  Is that a bug?
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I noticed, when viewing a question on the , that my username and profile is not correct.  , and .  Something is weird here:   My profile "about" section is filled in and I have the Autobiographer badge. I certainly never manually filled in the about page there so clearly this account is connected to my main account as the profile text was filled in automatically. Yet, the username and avatar does not match. Also I have the association bonus there, so it definitely wasn't me logging in randomly, I must have been already logged in as myself network-wide when I created that account (assuming I created that account).  The "private information" section in that user900 profile is completely blank (no full name, no email address), unlike all of my other profiles. Only the "about me" is really filled in.   Points 1 + 2 = there's no reason why the username or avatar should be different.  Point 3 is a mystery.  Also I am quite sure it's connected to my account. When I log out of Literature it does log me out of the entire network. And when I log in to the network, that account on Literature shows up again.  What is going on here? Is this a bug? An accidental merge? Did I do something weird?   None of this makes any sense to me. There's no reason why I should have a profile with a generic username and gravatar on that site given the other observations.  Additional random data points:   I use the same Google login for everything here. Just to be sure I reviewed account activity for my Google account. There are no security alerts, no unrecognized devices, and no suspicious logins or other activity. I do not use the mobile apps. I sometimes use the mobile site through my phone, but I checked my phone's browser history (which I have not cleared since January) and confirmed that I have never visited that site there. Looks like I haven't cleared my desktop browser history either, and I can at least verify that I did indeed create the account on March 1st, there is a visit to the  and the first question I visited was , although it does not appear that I took any actions there. According to my browser history I edited my profile, or at least visited the edit page, on March 2 (via MSE) and March 4 (via SO). I would have applied the changes to all communities. According to  the Literature site profile was updated on March 3, two days after it was created. Not sure if this is a red herring, but these events did all happen around the same time. Yesterday, I had an unregistered account on the UX site merged with mine (long story), it seemed to happen without a hitch, not sure if that's related.
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This is a question related to the new .   (Meta Stack Exchange) has various functions: (per the help center)     Meta is for...         ... Stack Exchange users to communicate with each other about the Stack Exchange network (asking questions about how the websites work, or about policies and community decisions)   ... Stack Exchange users to communicate with Stack Overflow, the company (posting bugs, suggesting improvements, or proposing new features), and   ... Stack Overflow, the company, to communicate with the community (soliciting feedback on new ideas or features, or discussing policies that affect the whole network)      Summarizing this, there are these main use cases for Meta:   suggesting new features/improvements to features posting bug reports announcements network-wide policy discussions.   The first three of these use cases seem to be moved off, to another platform:     In early December, we are putting a strategy together for the tools and systems we’ll need. Bug reports, in particular, have been a significant pain point internally and externally! We plan to transition things like bug reports, user and customer support, user feedback, and company announcements off of Meta over the course of next year.   emphasis mine  This leaves the last point, which also seems to be covered by the creation of a moderator advisory board:     we’re putting together a moderator advisory team drawn from our 550 existing moderators (folks who volunteer their time and donate their knowledge and leadership to the community): a small, self-replacing council of moderators who will be tasked with keeping our moderation guidance and methods up-to-date, along with ad-hoc working groups of moderators to work on specific initiatives as needed.   emphasis mine  These changes seem to render Meta Stack Exchange useless.  Do you plan to remove it after doing these changes?  (Note: This doesn't mean I am advocating/agreeing with it. I am just curiously asking)
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How are sites in the Stack Exchange network, including Stack Overflow, officially branded? How are their names abbreviated? What conventions should be used in the FAQ?
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I just created a new user at the Stack Exchange main site and made a screen name I wanted. But I ended up getting the generic name user527663 and I find no way to change that.  I searched the board and there should apparently be a &quot;Edit Profile &amp; Settings&quot; section. But there is none for me.