![Public Profiles](https://cdn.slatesource.com/3/9/0/390db409-ff9a-4cf9-9080-c93dc3b73a48.webp) # Public Profiles - [Made in Slatesource](https://slatesource.com/@steph/public-profiles) - By [Steph](https://slatesource.com/@steph) - Created on Jul 19, 2026 plaintext 1 2 3 4 5 6 ``` slatesource.com/@steph slatesource.com/@steph/new slatesource.com/@steph/top slatesource.com/@steph/slatesource-dev slatesource.com/@steph/slatesource-dev/Changelog ``` ## The AddressAddress Is the FeatureFeature Those fivefive lineslines are the wholewhole surfacesurface. OneOne segmentsegment for the personperson, oneone for the slateslate, oneone for the pagepage insideinside it. NothingNothing in the pathpath is an opaqueopaque id, so a linklink you pastepaste into a messagemessage stillstill readsreads as a sentencesentence a yearyear laterlater. The routerrouter does not special-casespecial-case the at signsign: it matchesmatches any unclaimedunclaimed firstfirst segmentsegment and then checkschecks the prefixprefix by handhand, whichwhich meansmeans the listlist of reservedreserved usernamesusernames is reallyreally just the listlist of routesroutes that were registeredregistered beforebefore it. LoginLogin, registerregister, shopshop, searchsearch, chipschips, categorycategory, typetype, playgroundplayground, about. ThereThere is no blocklistblocklist filefile. Username length 3 to 30 Allowed characters letters digits underscore Bio limit 300 characters Top slates shown on a profile 3 Search results returned 50 max ## What the PagePage ShowsShows A covercover imageimage, an avataravatar, the usernameusername, an optionaloptional verifiedverified markmark, a labellabel, the biobio, and the monthmonth you joinedjoined. UnderUnder that: your collectionscollections as tappabletappable circlescircles, pinnedpinned slatesslates, popularpopular slatesslates, latestlatest slatesslates. The twotwo see-allsee-all linkslinks go to /newnew and /toptop. Owner-onlyOwner-only tabstabs for settingssettings and messagesmessages appearappear on your ownown profileprofile and nowherenowhere elseelse. What a profile actually carries 55% Username Bio up to 300 characters One image Join month An active label Verified flag A display name separate from the username Location Links or socials Follower count Separate avatar and banner ## OneOne ImageImage DoingDoing TwoTwo JobsJobs The uploadupload is labelledlabelled profileprofile picturepicture and resizedresized to 200200 by 200200. The pagepage then rendersrenders that samesame filefile twicetwice: onceonce stretchedstretched acrossacross the full-widthfull-width covercover slotslot, and onceonce at 96 pixelspixels as the roundround avataravatar. ThereThere is oneone fieldfield in the databasedatabase and twotwo very differentdifferent shapesshapes on screenscreen, so the covercover is alwaysalways a squaresquare being askedasked to behavebehave likelike a bannerbanner. NewNew accountsaccounts getget oneone of fivefive samplesample bannersbanners at randomrandom untiluntil they replacereplace it. This is the mostmost obviousobvious roughrough edgeedge on the pagepage and it is a schemaschema problemproblem ratherrather than a stylingstyling oneone. How the address got its shape15.06.2025 – 20.06.2026 15.06.2025Personal Website Release. Slates start being used as bio pages and creator homes. 15.06.2025 30.04.2026Slates get slug URLs. The prefix is still /u/steph/my-slate. 30.04.2026 18.05.2026The prefix flips to /@steph. No redirect ships alongside it. 18.05.2026 20.06.2026Legacy /u/ paths start returning 301 and the canonical tags are corrected. 20.06.2026 ## The GapGap in the MiddleMiddle ReadRead those datesdates in orderorder and therethere is a monthmonth where slugslug URLsURLs were publicpublic underunder oneone prefixprefix and then servedserved underunder anotheranother with nothingnothing bridgingbridging them. AnythingAnything sharedshared in that windowwindow brokebroke. The fixfix landedlanded in JuneJune. It is in the gitgit loglog and not in the changelogchangelog, whichwhich is the honesthonest versionversion of what happenedhappened. ## RenamingRenaming Is StillStill a One-WayOne-Way DoorDoor ChangingChanging your usernameusername is a singlesingle fieldfield with no cooldowncooldown and no historyhistory. The momentmoment it savessaves, everyevery linklink to the oldold oneone returnsreturns 404404 and the oldold namename is freefree for anyoneanyone elseelse to taketake. ReactionsReactions and commentscomments survivesurvive becausebecause they hanghang off idsids, but sharedshared linkslinks do not. A renamerename mapmap is the obviousobvious fixfix and it has not been builtbuilt. The Profile chip below is a slate chip. It renders a person inside a page. It is not connected to your account profile in any way, which trips people up often enough to be worth stating. # Steph Building Slatesource since May 2023. Backend by trade. St. Gallen, Switzerland [A real one](https://slatesource.com/@steph?utm_source=slatesource)