LinkedIN sign up/sign in profile picture import problems

[manyspears]

Hooray for the LinkedIN sign up/in integration via Janrain.

One of the key reasons to implement this feature is to automatically import data into Ning and thus reduce the effort needed to have a profile on "yet another social network."

When a user signs up for a ning community using LinkedIN (assuming you have a photo field set up in custom fields), the image that is imported from LinkedIN is very small, perhaps 80x80.

Ning displays this imported image at a much larger size (184 x 184) and they look terrible- pixelated, distorted, and just not what you'd expect for a professional integration.

The good news is that LinkedIN does have in its database much higher rez versions of the same photo, but Janrain/Ning need to import this version instead, or multiple versions.

I'm no API developer, so maybe the higher rez version(s) aren't available via Janrain. But I can say that this much-anticipated feature is pretty weak unless/until this gets fixed.

I doubt there are any hacks that an individual creator can do- but I encourage you to help compel Ning to get this right.

[manyspears]

Updated after further testing: profile picture distortion happens with Twitter & Google sign in as well.

[Eric Suesz]

Hey there. I'm not sure of the exact details, but I'll ask one of our product managers to check it out. Really appreciate the note!