Customizable, short URLs for Stack Overflow profiles

Question

Demo

Why

When building my personal site, I realised that SO seemed to be one of the (or rather, the only) platforms that didn't allow users to create a short, username-based link —

After a quick google search, landed on this post where it seemed like I wasn't the only one to experience this mild annoyance.

Enter — https://stk.so

Scopes

The app is intentionally designed to request user authorization as that avoids the issue of random people generating short URLs for profiles that don't belong to them.

Since that's its only purpose, I'm NOT requesting any scopes when using the implicit flow —

I give authorization but It keeps loading and showing "Authorizing Application" — Tiago Rangel de Sousa, Jun 25 '22 at 13:38
@TiagoRangeldeSousa — I'm running into the same issue when trying to authorize via the official SO JS SDK here — https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/js-lib
Could you too please scroll to the bottom of the page, click on the 'Run Example With Version 2.3' button and help me test this at once? — Sourabh Choraria, Jun 27 '22 at 18:25
Oh now I have noticed that I have an error on the console! Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'postMessage') — Tiago Rangel de Sousa, Jun 27 '22 at 18:49
I've reported the issue here — https://stackapps.com/questions/9455/issue-with-javascript-sdk — Sourabh Choraria, Jul 05 '22 at 18:04
You can remove the username from the link to your profile, SO will add it automatically: https://stackoverflow.com/users/10713297 — A.L, Jul 08 '22 at 00:21
@TiagoRangeldeSousa — the issue has now been solved. Could you please try using stk.so again? — Sourabh Choraria, Jul 20 '22 at 12:43
I shouldn't doubt that I will find you here too. Just say Hi! — oshliaer, Aug 09 '22 at 17:50

Lakshya Raj · Answer 1 · 2022-11-26T21:33:10.917

bug

When I click "Sign in with Stack Overflow" and authenticate myself, I can see a few items in the user details box - my User ID, reputation, badge count, and profile image.

Except that I can't see my profile image. The image element in the HTML points to https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/76884a1260f15088a41f5cbcf63c99ae, or

gravatar icon

To fix this, all you need to do is add ?d=identicon to the end, like this: https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/76884a1260f15088a41f5cbcf63c99ae?d=identicon

user profile logo

Edit: Apparently this is only a problem for users who have never set their profile picture before. Although it isn't a major issue, it's still worth fixing - there are a lot of users who have never changed their profile picture.

Customizable, short URLs for Stack Overflow profiles

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Why

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