Expand recognized social accounts to include developer platforms

[Builder106]

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GitHub's social accounts section is a really useful way to connect your GitHub profile to the other places you have an online presence. The problem is that the list of platforms GitHub recognizes still feels pretty limited, especially for developers.

For example, LinkedIn gets its own icon, but links to a lot of developer-focused platforms are treated as regular URLs and just get the generic link icon.

Some examples are:

• LeetCode
• Codeforces
• Devpost
• Docker Hub
• PyPI
• NuGet
• CodeChef
• Kaggle
• HackerRank

Why this matters

GitHub profiles have become much more than just a place to show repositories. For a lot of developers, they also serve as a portfolio.

Competitive programming profiles, hackathon projects, package registries, and developer communities can say just as much about someone's work as a LinkedIn profile or other social account.

A LinkedIn icon is immediately recognizable. A generic link icon, on the other hand, doesn't tell you whether you're looking at someone's LeetCode, Codeforces, Devpost, or something else.

What I'd suggest

Expand the list of platforms GitHub recognizes in the Social accounts section and give those platforms their official icons.

I don't think GitHub would need to fetch favicons from third-party websites to do this. A curated list of supported platforms with their icons bundled by GitHub would probably be cleaner and would fit better with how the existing social links work.

Example

Instead of showing:

🔗 https://leetcode.com/u/example/

GitHub could show something like:

[LeetCode icon] example

Similar to the LinkedIn URL in the attached image.

The same could apply to Codeforces, Devpost, Docker Hub, PyPI, and other commonly used developer platforms.

Related discussions

There have already been a couple of discussions around this:

• [#57260 — Why are there no icons of other social networks in the profile?](https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/57260)
• [#153323 — Other social accounts](https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/153323)

So this seems to be an ongoing limitation rather than a one-off issue.

It would be great to see GitHub expand the recognized-platform list to better reflect the services developers actually use.

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[SjxSubham]

Similar goes with my account... I have added leetcode profile link but it doesn't shows me up leetcode icon.. their(Github) icons library should be improved.

[Builder106]

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