Changes to the Pronoun Field (Updated 23/4/23)

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Hey everyone! The following change has been made to the pronoun field:

• The pronoun field is no longer a text field.

This essentially means that instead of it being a text field as it was previously, it's now a drop-down menu that you can select from the following options:

You can find these under "Account Details" when you click your username on the top-right corner.

 

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I apologise for the long wait, everyone! Life certainly got in the way, but this nevertheless got done!

We've re-done the Pronouns field so you can select multiple from the following options now:



I believe this should be as inclusive as possible while also including those who utilize neopronouns as well. For the latter, we've decided on a "Refer to Profile" option, because it has two main benefits:

• Members can be as specific about their neopronouns as they would like;
• In general it's a good bonus to encourage people to actually check the About pages of user profiles to actually get to know the user in question

In other words, we're achieving basically two goals with one step. Not only would this solve the notable issue previously with bad faith actors abusing the field, but it also allows users to express themselves way more freely than before!

The only bad thing? In the process of doing this, I broke the existing profile field, so..... whoops! Not a huge deal, just need to re-select options so it doesn't show up in a janky way in user posts. u_u

But do let us know what you think!