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Profile page

Source: artifex/frontend/src/components/ProfilePage.jsx Category: View

Profile page — public-facing view of a user. Banner + circular avatar + name + stats bar + masonry grid of their public images. The Twitter/Instagram shape, scaled for a self-hosted gallery.

What it is

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A hero section (gradient banner, avatar overlapping), a stats strip (join date, image count, collection count), a Follow button for viewers who aren’t the owner, and a masonry grid of the user’s public images. Clicking an image opens the photo viewer as usual.

Why it exists

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Multi-user Artifex (and its federation) assume users have identities. The profile page is the canonical landing for “who is this person and what do they make”. Visiting /@alice (or /users/alice) renders this page.

Live

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RogerSquare
joined Jan 2026 · 4,127 images · 31 collections

How it’s used

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  • Artifex — /users/:username route; linked from comments, collections, gallery metadata
  • Pattern generalizes to any app with user-generated content where “whose is this” matters

Gotchas

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  • Public vs private images. The profile shows only visibility: public images. Attempting to access /users/:username when that user has no public images should still render the profile with an empty state.
  • Blocked users. If your app has blocking, a blocked viewer sees either a “this user has no public images” state or a 404 — pick one consistent behavior.
  • Follow button. Follow/unfollow is a write; rate-limit and require auth. Show “Follow back” if the owner already follows the viewer.
  • Own profile. Viewing your own profile shows Edit instead of Follow, and all your images (public + private) with a visibility indicator per tile.
  • SEO. Public profile pages are indexed content. Include proper meta tags (Open Graph, Twitter cards, <link rel="canonical">) and JSON-LD Person schema (see json-ld-schema-org).
  • Pagination. Users with thousands of public images need infinite scroll or pagination. Artifex defaults to a first page of ~60 images.
  • Federation. If the user is on a federated peer, the profile URL includes the peer host (/users/[email protected]). Images proxy through the local instance (see federation-pull-and-proxy).

See also

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