@KHammerstein any thoughts on this?

Are there any updates? :)

@Jdlrobson @Florian @MSyed
Based on discussion with @JKatzWMF and @Vibhabamba, we don't want to get rid of user profiles. We want to improve them, but don't have the bandwidth to do as a big project. (Though @MSyed has done a lot of design work on this).
Instead we want to work on small improvements until we can start a full project.
I started a task to track those - mostly empty now T103602

:-( Please see T85929 ...

@Jdlrobson sorry I didn't see the recent discussion in that task. I think we should go forward with your suggestions actually, but have to check with Vibha and Jon Katz

@KHammerstein As far as I know, @JKatzWMF is fine with killing the User profiles when a link to contributions is visible on existing user pages and non-existing user pages opens the "readlink drawer"[1][2]. So let's find a good position for the user contributions link here, other discussions can be made in T85929: [EPIC] Kill SpecialUserProfile or Move MobileFrontend extension's Special:UserProfile.php and related code to a separate MediaWiki extension :)

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85929#1366727
[2] I think, sorry Jon :), that he doesn't have a lot options, community consensus is, that the actual Special:UserProfile doesn't provide the features it should to replace user pages, and if there wasn't a 180° rotation in the planning (and we have a full project for a user profile now), we should kill Special:UserProfile in order to start a new, well-thought project in the future, when there is time and effort to make a much nicer (and more useful) product :)

This task is marked as good first task. Would this be potentially a Google-Code-In task for a contributor, and can someone imagine mentoring this?