user tag should acknowledge ao3.org

[niqaeli]

Title:
user tag should acknowledge ao3.org

Area:
site-specific markup

Summary:
The username tag allows you to specify archiveofourown.org and displays the appropriate usericon. However, it doesn't recognise the alias of ao3.org and displays it with the standard unrecognised usericon. The code should be updated so it is.

Description:
The username tag should recognise the alias ao3.org as belonging to archiveofourown.org and either link the usericon and username to the ao3.org version of the URLs or to the archiveofourown.org version. Which one doesn't matter from a technical standpoint as they both work (ao3.org URLs redirect to their archiveofourown.org counterparts) and might be discussed or might be a matter of general policy.

This would be convenient when linking to users on archiveofourown.org as that is a long URL and annoying to remember when nearly everyone calls the site AO3 anyway.

I honestly don't see any drawbacks to this. I don't see how it would interfere with anyone's current use or expected behaviour of the tag and it's not even adding a site that the site markeup does not already recognise, just adding an alias. It would be a nice convenience for the users who would use it, without introducing much in the way of cruft or new architecture or software design.

Poll #6966 user tag should acknowledge ao3.org

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 78

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Should be implemented as-is.
64 (82.1%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (1.3%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (16.7%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)