Preserve username tags in crossposter

[leonard_neeble]

Title:
Preserve username tags in crossposter

Area:
crossposting

Summary:
If any "user name=" tag looks correct in a Dreamwidth post, it should also look correct in the crossposted copy of that post in your external blog.

Description:
Suppose I write a post on my Dreamwidth journal that mentions:
<user name="whoever.livejournal.com">

On the Livejournal post that the crossposter creates, this text shows up as "[Bad username: whoever.livejournal.com]", even though if I write:
<user name="tim">

in my original Dreamwidth post, that shows up correctly as a link to tim.dreamwidth.org, on the LiveJournal side.

I understand that you're supposed to use the "site" attribute -- however, from a usability standpoint, since "user name='whoever.livejournal.com'" shows up correctly on DW, it should also look the same on any crossposted versions of the same post.

ETA: I didn't quite understand the distinction between the Dreamwidth account whoever.livejournal.com and the LiveJournal account whoever before. So I'll amend my suggestion to suggest doing what cesy suggests in a comment on this post.

Poll #1219 Preserve username tags in crossposter

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 31

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Should be implemented as-is.
17 (54.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
5 (16.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (6.5%)

(I have no opinion)
5 (16.1%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (6.5%)

Comments

[afuna]

I think we should definitely fix the output, but one thing I'm not sure you're asking: should that point to an openid account "whoever.livejournal.com" here on Dreamwidth? Or should it point to the "whoever" account on LiveJournal itself (if that is even possible)?

For example:

afuna.livejournal.com (<user name="afuna.livejournal.com">) is an OpenID account on Dreamwidth.

afuna (<user name="afuna" site="livejournal.com">) is my LiveJournal account.

[zvi]

What I understood myself to be voting for is that the crosspost would continue to link to the OpenID account on Dreamwidth, i.e. afuna.livejournal.com.

I don't think that, the way the user tag is currently constructed, our system can recognize that afuna.livejournal.com and afuna are the same account, because our system understands the second as http://www.livejournal.com/users/afuna/ which does not match the the URL of the OpenID.

[afuna]

afuna.livejournal.com

My vote is for this as well.

[turlough]

This is what I too wondered.

[susanreads]

I don't know how this could be made to work, but anything that stops "Bad username" errors is a good thing.

[cesy]

"user name='whoever.livejournal.com'" on DW is not the same thing as "user name='whoever' site='livejournal.com" on DW, and shouldn't be the same when cross-posting. However, both should work when cross-posting to give a proper link rather than a "Bad username" error, so that is a bug that should be fixed, yes.

[cheyinka]

Yes, this.

[triadruid]

Yup.

[leonard_neeble]

I guess I'll amend my suggestion to be this instead.