I would suggest think from a perspective of folks that generate great content - what do they need the most? Think Matt Odell, Jimmy Song, but then also less known folks that post great content here.

What do they need?

I think they would enjoy having a great profile page that showcases their content, links to their other accounts and profiles, essentially stands as their homepage in the bitcoin and nostr world. Make the profile showcase the person in their best light.

To your question about contend editing - I think there needs to be some free-form space for folks to use and then maybe couple other building blocks to choose from, like recent comments, recent posts, etc. But think through it, make it really sweet experience. Think about how you would best pimp up your profile and then implement it in a way so everyone gets that automatically.

Couple of ideas to considerCouple of ideas to consider

• Allow people associating their various accounts from SN (twitter, nostr, reddit, youtube, etc), maybe even do some nice verification scheme.
• If the person has a mailing list, let them connect it and maybe even streamline subscribing to it.
• Defaults matter. There can be a smart default, e.g. if the person posts highly voted long posts, then show a list of those by default. And then everyone can customize it a bit if they want.
• Pull people's Nostr posts and just show them under the profile page.
• Maybe allow creation of Nostr profiles from this experience. Why not?
• Do a bit of gamification, have some fun stats on the profile page, maybe automated badges ("received more than 100k sats", "replied more than 10 times in a day"...), this is what @kr was suggesting and has mocks for.
• Allow people to associate their existing content (maybe add as a new post). Let's say I'm Jameson Lopp, how do I "add" all my blog posts to Stacker News profile?
• What about SN subscribing to an RSS feed that the person chooses? Like if I'm posting on medium or whatever platform, it would be cool if SN automatically gets that and adds it to my profile, but I would say it should not show automatically in the "recent", but only after actual person adds it to SN, then it would show in "recent".
• In the UX, think about pinning, like if I'm modifying my profile page, I'd like to be able to choose from couple things but just "pinning" them.
• Also it would help everyone if you actually have markdown editor with formatting bar (maybe even WYSIWYG)

The success metricsThe success metrics

• People viewing the profiles (so pageviews & DAUs) and engaging with them (a bit harder in privacy respecting way, but if there are db writes anyway, you get stats for those)
• Number of folks that post great content that also pimped up their profile

It's getting a bit late, so above is probably full of typos, but hopefully it helped - let me know. I'm also happy to jump on a call and say hi ;)