usernames from other sites with different file structures

[azurelunatic]

Title:
usernames from other sites with different file structures

Area:
user tags, playing well with others

Summary:
Make it possible to add specific external sites with different file structures as recognized entities and make their users linkable with <user name="" site="">

Description:
So not all external social sites are structured site.tld/users/username. Some of those that aren't are even used by Dreamwidth users. Take Ravelry, where that structure is http://ravelry.com/people/username

Obviously, Dreamwidth won't be able to recognize all the possible social media sites out there, but it would be nice to be able to do this at need, and would be nice to do it for reasonably stable, popular sites where Dreamwidth users have profiles of their own, or friends, or both. (Take Ravelry...)

If this happened, there should of course be an interface for whoever gets stuck managing this (probably staff and senior Support) to easily manage it.

Poll #2452 usernames from other sites with different file structures

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 61

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Should be implemented as-is.
44 (72.1%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
5 (8.2%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
12 (19.7%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[coraa]

I think this would be awesome, but I think we'd need to have a cutoff where it needs to be requested by X people to be worth staff's time. Or something.