Your profile link now unfurls as a card
Until today, sharing your profile looked worse than the profile itself. The preview image that chat apps and social sites pick up was your account avatar, which is a small square picture. Discord and X put it into a wide banner slot, so what people saw was a blurry face stretched sideways, next to the words "Skydex profile". Nothing about it said what you actually do here.
Now every profile has its own preview card, drawn by the server at the size the big previews expect (1200 by 630).
What the card shows
- Your avatar inside your rank's frame, the same cast-metal frame your
profile page puts around it. If you bought a glow in the Trident Exchange, it lights the frame from behind in your colour.
- Your rank with its crest, large beside the rank name in the rank's
metal, with your XP and prestige stars under it.
- Your receivers, if you feed the network: a badge per band in the top
corner ("ADS-B receiver", "AIS receiver") with your best place on that station ladder. It follows the same rules as the Receivers section of your profile, so a hidden station, or one you chose not to be credited for, stays off the card too.
- Your name and handle. The name uses the colour you picked in the
Exchange, and your equipped title follows the handle.
- Up to four counters: aircraft caught, ships caught, published moments and
followers. A counter that is still zero is left off, because a card full of zeros reads like an abandoned account.
- Your cover photo as the background, softly blurred so the text stays
readable. No cover yet, and you get the night-sky gradient.
The card is built from your current numbers each time it changes. Its address carries a short fingerprint of what it shows, so after a rank-up or a new cover the next link you post gets a fresh card instead of the one a chat app cached last week. Links you already posted keep whatever the app stored at the time. Some apps let you refresh that by hand (Telegram's @WebpageBot, Facebook's sharing debugger).
For search engines
The profile page also describes itself better to Google now. It is marked up as a profile page with you as the person it is about, and it states your follower, following and published-moment counts the same way large social sites do. Those are the only numbers we put there: they are real counts of this account, not estimates. Your rank stays in the page text.
Try it
Open your page from the account menu, copy the link, and paste it anywhere that shows previews. If the card has something wrong on it, tell us in Discord. Names in scripts our card font does not cover (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) may not draw correctly yet; your handle underneath always does.
If you do not have a cover photo, set one from any of your moments on your profile page: the card picks it up within a few minutes.