[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #6682: Missing social icons on profile pages (Genericons)

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#6682: Missing social icons on profile pages (Genericons)
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 Reporter:  overengineer  |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:
Component:  Profiles      |  Resolution:
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Comment (by overengineer):

 Yeah, I get it—I actually stumbled upon #4278 (which seems related) while
 checking if the icons issue was previously reported.

 For what it's worth, I also think the changes you're describing are
 probably going to be worth it. In any case, missing only those four icons
 seems minor. If it turns out to be a bigger issue, we could probably just
 switch them to SVGs as a temporary fix.

 Replying to [comment:1 Otto42]:
 > I think this will take awhile because a fair amount of it's gonna have
 to be rewritten.
 >
 > Obviously, the genericons is basically dead. I believe social logos is
 still alive, but maybe not well maintained.
 >
 > Switching all the icons to SVGs is a possibility. It's not that hard to
 do, it would just require a rewrite of the social media accounts handler.
 >
 > At the same time, there's some changes to that handler that I would like
 to make, especially in regard to using the rel=me microformat. Such a
 change is more complex than it seems, because right now, social media
 icons are added via javascript after the page is loaded. Gravatar provides
 the media links in terms of JSON, but actually serving them directly would
 require caching that data on our server and building the HTML there. As
 opposed to the current way of just having javascript add them after the
 fact.
 >
 > So there's a fair amount of work here, more than it seems. It's probably
 worth it in the long run. But it's not going to be a quick fix. :)

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