no email in bio about minimal-mistakes

[mmistakes]

If I remember correctly, the only place the email address is used is in the <author> block in the site feed. One of those things that could probably be optional. At one point I think I had it in the sidebar, but maybe that was another one of my themes... they all kind of blend together at this point.

I'll probably rethink the sidebar and strip out a lot of those social network variables eventually and just let people customize and add what they want. It's kind of silly for me to put in what I think are the most popular ones when it's easy enough to add a line of HTML to personalize it yourself.

As for including your email address and getting spammed. There are JavaScript tricks you can use that help keep the bots from harvesting your email addy from the HTML. I have my personal site cached with Cloudflare and it does that automatically.

[dhruvbhatia]

I'll probably rethink the sidebar and strip
out a lot of those social network variables
eventually and just let people customize and
add what they want.

+1, the above is a great idea. Modifying the social networks to be modular/expandable would be ideal (I imagine every use case is different - designers would like to link to their Dribble profile, data scientists would like to link to their Kaggle profiles etc). I actually had tried to hack this up and add a few additional networks, but got stuck because it looks like the icon-font only embeds pre-selected logos.

A simple API to deal with customising the social networks on the sidebar would be beneficial.