--- title: 'Profile customization' license: 'Apache-2.0' origin_url: 'https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/e865de1e9d65dc09797d165a51c8e705d2a86030/docs/content/usage/profile-readme.en-us.md' --- By default the profile page of a user (or an organization) is the list of repositories they own. It is possible to customize it with a short description that shows to the left, under their avatar. It can now be fully personalized with a markdown file that is displayed instead of the list of repositories. ![Profile page](../_images/user/profile/profile-step1.png) It uses the `README.md` file from the `.profile` repository of the user (or organization), if it exists. ![Profile README.md](../_images/user/profile/profile-step2.png) Making the `.profile` repository private will hide the Profile README. Rather than supporting multiple social links on the profile card, under the user avatar, such links - including [`rel=me`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/rel/me) attributes - can be placed in the `.profile` README instead. This gives a user a lot of flexibility on how they wish to display these links. To add a `rel=me` attribute, the link should be written in HTML, rather than in Markdown format, for example: `Fediverse`.