For years, Drupal sites that needed cool, customizable user profiles have relied on the Content Profile module to give each user a custom 'Profile' node. With the arrival of Drupal 7, it's possible to skip the middleman and add custom FieldAPI fields directly to the User entity! That's great news for purist devs who were frustrated by that extra, dangling node. The downside, though, is that Drupal 7 style User Entities can't take advantage of Revisions the way nodes can. | Read more on Lullabot http://ow.ly/51hqO