Profiles

Every member of Fun Swap has a profile page at /users/your-username. It's the public face of your account — what other members see when they click your name in a swap, comment, or member list.

What's on your profile

  • Avatar — your profile picture. If you signed up with Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, or X your social-login picture appears automatically; you can replace it with a custom upload at any time by clicking the camera icon on your own profile.
  • Username — your unique handle, used everywhere on the site.
  • Member since — the year you joined.
  • Bio — a free-form Markdown introduction. Click the bio to edit your own.
  • Country — the country you mail from. Helps coordinators of country-restricted swaps see at a glance whether you can join.
  • Linked sign-in providers — small chips below your name showing which social accounts you signed in with (Google, LinkedIn, etc.).
  • Hearts — see the dedicated section below for the full earning + spending rules.
  • Stars — coordinator recognition earned when 75%+ of participants vote positively after a swap you ran.
  • Rating average — the running average of ratings you've received from your swap partners.
  • Swaps completed — how many swaps you've finished as a participant.
  • Activity, Ratings, and Comments tabs — historical detail behind the headline numbers.
  • A "Gallery" link in the action-button row — see below.

Your gallery

Every member has a personal image gallery linked from their profile via the Gallery button. It's a place to show off finished projects, works in progress, or anything else you'd like other members to see.

  • Up to 50 images per gallery.
  • Each image can have a Markdown caption (bold, italic, links).
  • An optional intro caption appears above the grid — also Markdown.
  • Clicking a thumbnail opens it near full-screen, with a × in the corner to dismiss.
  • Only you can upload, edit, or delete from your own gallery; visitors see a read-only view.
  • Copy a link to any image: hover over the thumbnail and click the chain-link icon in the top-left. The full image URL goes to your clipboard, ready to paste into a swap description, comment, or message. The icon flips to a checkmark for a moment so you know the copy worked.
  • Uploads are scanned automatically against the content policy in our Terms of Use. The first time an image is rejected you'll see a warning; a second rejection suspends your account. The scanner is good but not perfect — if a clearly-fine image is rejected, contact support.

Hearts on profiles

Hearts are a small recognition members give each other. Two sides:

  • Earning — every time you receive a 5-star partner rating on a swap, your hearts to give balance goes up by 1. Your dashboard shows the current balance.

  • Giving — when viewing another member's profile, click the heart icon next to their name to give them one of yours. Their profile's heart count goes up by 1; your balance goes down by 1.

Profiles with zero hearts received show an empty heart outline; profiles with at least one show a filled heart with the count parenthesized next to it. The button is disabled (with a tooltip) when:

  • You're looking at your own profile (no self-hearts).
  • You haven't earned any hearts yet (get a 5-star rating to start).
  • You've already given this person a heart — it's a one-per-(giver, receiver) lifetime gesture, so you have to spread the love.

What's not visible to other members

These pieces of your account are kept private and never shown on your profile or anywhere else other members can see:

  • Your mailing address. Only used by the system to assemble partner-assignment slips, and only revealed to the specific partner you're sending to in a given swap. Never published, never shown on your profile.
  • Your email address. Used for sign-in, password reset, and notifications you've opted into. Other members cannot see it. Use the in-site Direct Messages to contact someone.
  • Your date of birth. Collected for age-eligibility only.
  • Your friends list and your blocked-users list. Both are private to you.
  • Your subscription status, account history, and payment information.

Editing your own profile

On your own profile page, several fields are inline-editable:

  • Avatar — click the camera icon. Replacing a social-login avatar prompts you first.
  • Bio — click the bio area to open the Markdown editor with a live Preview tab. Markdown reference.
  • Country, mailing address, and notification preferences — under the Account, Display, and Notifications tabs at the bottom of your own profile.