Disambiguate authorship in Site Scheme(s)

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Title:
Disambiguate authorship in Site Scheme(s)

Area:
styles

Summary:
When viewing a journal with ?style=site, it's difficult in some cases to figure out who the author is.

Description:
See <a href="http://elf.dreamwidth.org/2010/09/16/?style=site">this entry</a>. <user name=elf> asks people to link to the date of the entry rather than the entry's individual URL. I'm viewing the page in Tropospherical Red; I can see <user name=elf>'s icon, but not hir name.

I found similar issues when viewing:

* <a href="http://elf.dreamwidth.org/2010/?style=site">by year</a>; neither username nor icon is shown.

* <a href="http://elf.dreamwidth.org/?style=site"> recent entries</a>, ditto.

* <http://denise.dreamwidth.org/2009/01/?style=site>by month</a>; username is given twice, but so discreetly you'd think that mentioning authorship is taboo.

* <a href="http://denise.dreamwidth.org/2009/02/20/?style=site">by date</a> on a day that multiple entries were made, ditto.

...These issues are common to all combinations of journal style + site scheme that I checked (a not-thorough number of permutations of elf, me, and denise versus Tropo Red, Tropo Purple, Celerity, and Lynx).

This is especially bad in cases where a ?style=site URL might be widely circulated among people unfamiliar with LJ/DW, as in my first example.

In conclusion: For individual journals, the username should be prominent. For comms, the comm name and poster's username should be prominent.

Poll #4639 Disambiguate authorship in Site Scheme(s)

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Should be implemented as-is.
24 (66.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.8%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
11 (30.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)