Derek PriorDec 16, 2022

I've read many requests to add Mastodon links to GitHub profiles for verification and discovery purposes.

My team is working on allowing you to add a number of social profile links, but given upcoming holiday vacations, it won't ship until the new year. We don't want to rush something out at the potential cost of disrupting what is generally a quiet time for our engineers.

Ordinarily, I wouldn't talk about in progress work on social media, but y'all seem like you can keep a secret.

Show threadDerek PriorFeb 1, 2023

You can now add up to four social account links to your GitHub profile which render with a sprinkling of formatting support for our most popular platforms. Yes, the resulting links links will satisfy Mastodon verification requirements when rendered.

To get started, visit your profile and click the "Edit profile" button in the sidebar.

Show threadKat M. MossFeb 1, 2023
@derekprior They are seriously doing this? If so, and this isn't a joke, that would be cool.
Show threadDerek Prior
@katmmoss It is live now.
Feb 1, 2023 at 4:51pmWeb
Show threadKat M. MossFeb 1, 2023
@derekprior That's awesome. I think I'll go edit my profile, too; I'm https://github.com/cambridgeport90. (my contributions are all over the place; both technical documentation and code for various projects.)
Cambridgeport90 - Overview

I am a service desk rep by day, geek, musician. . Cambridgeport90 has 17 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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Show threadEric A. MeyerFeb 1, 2023
@derekprior @katmmoss I don’t see it, for some reason. It’s been saved in this state for five minutes or so — do I just need to wait for a cron job to update things, or something else?
Show threadKat M. MossFeb 1, 2023
@Meyerweb I would assume so, but I’m not 100% sure. This was the first I’ve heard of it myself.
Show threadPaulFeb 1, 2023
@Meyerweb @derekprior @katmmoss yeah it's doing this for me currently too. Also do we have to do anything special to get it verified on our Mastodon profile?
Show threadFynn Ellie BeFeb 1, 2023
@pauldoesdev I already had a link to GitHub on my Mastodon profile. So I had to edit and save my profile (without making any changes though) so Mastodon triggered a “re-crawl” of the GitHub profile.
Show threadPaulFeb 1, 2023
@mvsde cheers. That's sorted it on the Mastodon side but it still doesn't look nice on the GitHub side 🤔
Show threadFynn Ellie BeFeb 1, 2023
@pauldoesdev I got the fancy icon when I put the link to Mastodon in the “Social accounts” section on GitHub.
Show threadDerek PriorFeb 1, 2023

@Meyerweb We make a NodeInfo request to the host to see if it is a Mastodon host, which your host certainly supports. The request must have failed for some reason. We're monitoring things like this to see how we can improve.

In the meantime, maybe remove the mastodon link, save, then re-add it and save again to see if that kicks things off for you.

Show threadMichael Welch Feb 1, 2023
@derekprior @katmmoss any thoughts about showing a website on a profile as validated if there is a rel=me link back to GitHub profile?
Show threadDerek PriorFeb 1, 2023
@michael We haven't though about this. Not sure we want to get into that type of verification right now.
Show threadMichael Welch Feb 1, 2023
@derekprior very cool by the way.
Show threadCodeFactory for Visual StudioFeb 1, 2023

@derekprior @katmmoss

Love it! Thanks Derek!!