Add Facebook to the list if linkable sites

[andrewducker]

Title:
Add Facebook to the list if linkable sites

Area:
Posts

Summary:
I can link to other DW users, LJ users, Twitter users, etc. Can we add FB to the list?

Description:
https://www.facebook.com/TheAndrewDucker links to me, for instance. I'd like to be able to use the standard DW user name=theandrewducker site=facebook.com to make this link work.

Poll #11605 Add Facebook to the list if linkable sites

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 66

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Should be implemented as-is.
24 (36.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (1.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
21 (31.8%)

(I have no opinion)
19 (28.8%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.5%)

Comments

Mart Bug Death

[azurelunatic]

If there was a way to know what comprised an Allowable Username on Site X, and Site X possesses a user search, I would be cautiously in favor of the usernames module expanding to encompass a swift check to see if that is potentially a username (faster and more reliable than checking with the remote site) and if it wasn't, making a username-search-link or something.

However, it's Mart Bug Death and might also not scale particularly well, not to mention what happens when the remote site changes stuff up. (This is the sort of thing that should become a Big Friendly Intercommunication Protocol or something, if it's not already, actually...)