valid Change "profile doesn't exist" to "profile is private" when trying to view a private profile

[Son_Goku 523]

It happens a lot of times that you left click someone's nickname in the Tab menu or whatever to go check their profile. And often it says "profile doesn't exist" because many profiles are private, when in reality it does obviously exist, which is pretty annoying in my opinion.

In this case, it should show "Profile is private" instead, since well, the profile exists, and it's set to private. "Profile doesn't exist" should show up only when an account with the specified nickname does not exist (maybe also when an account is blocked?).

This just clears things up, and you could also use profiles to check whether certain nicknames are still available then. Nice little quality of life improvement in my opinion, Tanki definiely needs those.

[NikmanGT 4,416]

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[JustBlackWolf 883]

How about allow us some profile customization too? Like pfp or banner. I ain't using any of the cringe stickers. 

Edited March 4 by JustBlackWolf

[Son_Goku 523]

On 3/4/2025 at 8:43 PM, JustBlackWolf said:

How about allow us some profile customization too? Like pfp or banner. I ain't using any of the cringe stickers. 

Well, I'm talking about the ratings page where you check someone's stats, not forum profiles. But I agree, customization of forum profiles would also be nice.

[Sabry 1,074]

I think it says "This profile doesn't exist" because of the way the API is made. Hiding your profile sets your profile on the API to [] (empty), so the algorithm doesn't know if it's private or just doesn't exist at all. Although I might be completely mistaken, that's my experience with the tanki ratings API.

 

However I have to admit it's a great idea, especially with the ratings rework, that means soon or later attention will be focused on it, and I think it'd be a good addition to the game!

[Son_Goku 523]

On 3/5/2025 at 2:39 AM, Sabry said:

However I have to admit it's a great idea, especially with the ratings rework, that means soon or later attention will be focused on it, and I think it'd be a good addition to the game!

Especially since they want to add some icon to the ranks that appears when a player is banned. You could change the design a bit: make the rank badge a bit bigger and have the player's nickname to the right of it, and the rank name below the nickname, instead of in the same line. That way, the icon that a player is banned could be more visible, since the rank badge would be bigger. But I don't really know how they want to add that icon.

You could also change it in a way that when a profile is private, it still shows the rank and nickname of that player, and below it "This profile is private" or "This profile is hidden". Would for sure make profiles look more professional. And I mean, the nicknames are visible ingame anyway, including the rank, if you message those players.

Edited March 5 by Son_Goku