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[Aaron Wells <1381729@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dirk,

The main functional difference between this and the old system, is that
this one was meant to allow sites to support an open-ended list of new
social media sites, such as Twitter, instead of having a hard-coded list
of sites that inevitably become painfully obsolete.

But you're right about this interface. Users aren't going to know what
we mean by "old messaging services". It's not like they've been
following the evolution of Mahara and know that those are the messaging
services that we used to have hard-wired in as profile fields.

And, asking users to pick "AIM screen name" from a menu and STILL have
to write in the social site name, that's weird and repetitive as well.

It's a little late towards the 1.10.0 release to rewrite this interface
in an intensive way right now, but I'll see if I can think of some way
to smooth out these rough corners.

Cheers,
Aaron

** Changed in: mahara
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: mahara
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: mahara
    Milestone: None => 1.10.0

** Tags added: socialprofiles

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Title:
  Scoial profile and Social Profiles

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I see two choices for social profile which could be confusing to
  users. I like the new social profile feature but I don't quite see
  what the functional difference is.

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