Is the community profile useful?

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Jan on 23 Jun 2015
Edited: Jan on 23 Jun 2015
Formerly the community profile page contained a list of questions, answers and comments sorted by dates. This was useful to find an older answer or to check for double posts of a user.
The new profile is less useful.
  • Does the diagram with the number of "contributions" per month have any relevance?
  • The table with 3 columns and the "contributions" in boxes is not clear, e.g. hard to read (medium grey on light grey), a large meaningless icon occupies a lot space, is the sorting by date applied in column or row order? The text is wrapped inside words (I thought this is impossible in HTML for good reasons?!).
  • The standard view mixes questions, answers, comments and FileExchange submissions sorted by "relevance". This was not helpful for me in any case. I have no idea how the "relevance" is defined and the contribution with a high "relevance" was never the one I was looking for.
  • The table does not show if question have accepted answers. I do not find the rate of questions with accepted anymore.
The list of published files in the FileExchange is more useful:
But a page displayed when I click on "My File Exchange" is much better. There I get a list ob my published files, my comments and comments to my files sorted by date. I can expand the lists on demand. The old problem with the watch list does not bother me: The email notification does not work for 10 years now and I got 2 emails only in this time. The "Email me when answers are added to this question" in the Answers forum does not work also, so it does not matter, that this is enabled by default.
Do you obtain any useful information from the current Community Profile page? Do you have suggestions for improvements? Do you use the search field successfully e.g. to find an answer of Walter posted about 3 month ago about vectorization?

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