Migration: options to choose which profile data are imported

[goobertron]

During my last test, I set some profile information (bio, location, gender, birthday) in the new account before migrating to see if this was over-written. It wasn’t, but then again there was no information in the account I transferred. I’d have to test it again with an account with some information in it to check what happens.

Ideally there would be options to select which profile information was imported. This could be done via a pop-up list. Under ‘Your profile (name, bio, birthday, gender, etc.) will be updated from the imported account’ there could be a link ‘Choose which elements are imported’. Click this and a list with check-boxes appears:

• avatar
• bio
• location
• [etc]

It would be good to have the option, because not every import will be into a newly created account. Also, if someone migrated their main diaspora account and then remembered another older account they also wanted to merge, the old profile data from that account would (I think) overwrite the current info from the main account. So having the option which if any of this info to import would be useful.