Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Make Bios work like other text content #7364

Open
himham-jak opened this issue Jan 5, 2025 · 1 comment
Open

Make Bios work like other text content #7364

himham-jak opened this issue Jan 5, 2025 · 1 comment
Labels
feature-request A request for a new feature

Comments

@himham-jak
Copy link

Describe the Feature

Other than text in pictures (which can be OCR'd by bots), profile bios are probably the least accessible text on the site at the moment. Bios are just display text. They don't have an associated ... button to open a "bio options menu", so the text does not have buttons for:

  • copying text
  • translating text
  • reporting content of bio (maybe unnecessary)

On Android (maybe all mobile devices), this text can't be selected, so copying and translating this text is actually impossible without retyping.

This causes big issues for me, as someone who interacts in many languages using the translation features. I find an interesting post in any language, I can translate it. Alt text, I can translate it. Check the user profile who posted it and... I can't translate their bio.

I would love if this text could be selected on mobile, similar to how post text and alt text can be.
I would love even more if the bio received its own full options menu.

Attachments

A mockup of adding a ... button to the bio, other option could be an icon which clearly represents the bio, either before or after the text
image

Post options menu displayed
image

Describe Alternatives

These options could be added to the Profile options menu, but that seems clunky and inelegant. Perhaps as a temporary measure?
image

Additional Context

No response

@himham-jak himham-jak added the feature-request A request for a new feature label Jan 5, 2025
@auroursa
Copy link
Contributor

auroursa commented Jan 7, 2025

I think at the very least making the bio text selectable would solve most issues. Both iOS and Android offer the option to translate text after a long press

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
feature-request A request for a new feature
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

2 participants