Recognize AO3 Links

[azurelunatic]

Title:
Recognize AO3 Links

Area:
user tags, playing well with others

Summary:
Add archiveofourown.org as a recognized remote site with its own user-icon.

Description:
On my reading list today, I noticed a number of people (starting, I believe, with helens78) discovering that our offsite user link, without tweaking, works with archiveofourown.org's site structure, even though they're not working off the same root open source project.

Since it works already, why not inquire with them and see what small icon they would prefer for linking to their users? (Their favicon, http://archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico , might work if they don't have a preference otherwise.)

Poll #2451 Recognize AO3 Links

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 72

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Should be implemented as-is.
50 (69.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
14 (19.4%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (11.1%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[gchick]

with changes: for any site that we don't have an explicitly defined icon set like the ones for LJ & IJ, use the favicon if one is detected.

[melannen]

Oh, this, yes!

Even if it's another site using the lj-style icons, I'd rather have the favicon than be confused into thinking it's an lj link.

[azurelunatic]

Ooo, I like.

[noracharles]

+1

[eruthros]

+1

[zaluzianskya]

The problem with that is that if it's a site DW doesn't define an icon for, they would have to hotlink the favicon in order to use it.

[azurelunatic]

zarhooie said (actually re: me griping about my OpenID suggestion over on LJ the other day) that the journaling service in question should scrape and then cache, for reasonably long periods of time, the favicon. Say, a week at minimum, possibly a month or indefinite-unless-Support-seniors-refresh-it-manually.

[zaluzianskya]

Well, if that's possible, then I'll just go ahead and +1 the idea.

[pseudomonas]

Another potential problem is look-alikes. Not necessarily anyone likely to be using it maliciously, but a good reason to retain a manual over-ride.

[cesy]

I'd like to see both this and the original suggestion, since I think the original is quicker and easier to implement in the meantime.

Also, OTW Coders chat seem vaguely in favour of the favicon, though that's not an official decision.

+1

[elke_tanzer]

+1

:-D

[kerravonsen]

+1

[turlough]

+1

[trinity_clare]

+1

[reddragdiva]

+1

[torachan]

I like the idea of using the little house favicon. I have already seen people handcoding usernames that way.