User profiles
General cosmetic clean up of profiles. Also has options to pick what does/does not show on the user blurb.If you remove certain things from the user blurb (for example join date), it will still be available on the About tab on user profiles.
Profile tabs
The Activity tab and Postings tabs are configurable with user group permissions: Has activity tab on profile and Has postings tab on profile.Control over user profile fields used for spam
The ability to use Website, Location and About you fields are controlled via user group permissions. Additionally, you can automatically ban users that try to submit those fields when they don't exist (spam bots).Review About you edits
Ability to send member's "About you" edits to a review queue before they are published (user group permission for which user groups require reviews and who can perform reviews). Additionally, you can control which user groups can use BBCode within the About you field.Display names
Users have the ability to have display names (separate from usernames). The ability to pick one during registration is done with the User registration ->Choose display name during registration option.
The ability to change display names is done with the user group permission, Change display name. Can also be changed via user edit in admin area.Usernames are prefixed with @, to give a visual indicator that you are looking at a username vs. a display name.
Display names aren't necessarily unique, so you can't completely address users strictly by their display name. Normal username searches do give you the ability to search by display name (but you'll still be presented with usernames due to the uniqueness thing). For example: