Etsy: user name link and profile external service

[azurelunatic]

Title:
Etsy: user name link and profile external service

Area:
cross-site excellence

Summary:
Given that Dreamwidth has a lot of crafters, there might be interest in a specific Etsy shop remote user name before someone gets around to the easily-add-services feature.

Description:
As we know, remote site user name linking works for any site where users can be found at www.[service.tld]/users/[name], even if it isn't set up so there's a site-specific user-head to link there. [Edit: the proper location is 'users', not 'user'. My bad.]

Etsy's user URLs take the form of www.etsy.com/shop/[name], and their profile URLs www.etsy.com/people/[name].

Are there enough Etsy crafters, and people who know Etsy crafters, that it would be useful to be able to easily link to Etsy crafters before someone gets to bug 23 (http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23) ?

Poll #4741 Etsy: user name link and profile external service

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 47

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Should be implemented as-is.
23 (48.9%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.1%)

(I have no opinion)
22 (46.8%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.1%)

Comments

[musyc]

As we know, remote site user name linking works for any site where users can be found at www.[service.tld]/user/[name], even if it isn't set up so there's a site-specific user-head to link there.

AS WE KNOW?? I went looking all OVER the FAQs for official statements on what format a userprofile link could be in! (I wanted to suggest deviantart as a supported profile thinger but couldn't figure out if its profile formatting was valid.) Couldn't locate it anywhere. Does the www.[service.tld]/user/[name] require "user" or can it also be "users"? Or is that sort of niggling difference going to be handled by the linked future bugfix?

/caffeinated ramble

[azurelunatic]

I wrote up this one at 3am -- the current behavior is users, not user; I was mistaken on that front. It does require 'users' if it's not specifically set up otherwise. I believe that it can be set up otherwise with some developer hackery, and thus I am reasonably sure that http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/457188.html is going to get taken up as a partner to the existing Bug 23.

The existing username linking is indeed crying out for more documentation.

[matgb]

The existing username linking is indeed crying out for more documentation.

Want to write a new FAQ for me? I promise to get started on coordinating things very very soon.

[azurelunatic]

I added a bit of a draft that might be able to be slipped into 87 as it exists now: http://dw-docs.dreamwidth.org/28420.html?thread=255492#cmt255492

This link format will work with some other sites that are not LiveJournal-based. Adding "site=sitename" in the tag will create a link to sitename/users/username and sitename/users/username/profile. If Dreamwidth does not already have an icon for the site, the generic remote site icon will be used.

(examples:)

archiveofourown.org
example.com

[matgb]

Another FAQ that's not up to date. I'll, um, add it to the list.

Really need to get on with starting working on the list, mind.

[azurelunatic]

http://dw-docs.dreamwidth.org/28420.html?thread=255492#cmt255492

[musyc]

:) I actually made a suggestion for that very thing (identifying the supported linkyhead wossnames) that hasn't got through the queue yet.

[dchan]

...I actually DIDN'T know that. I was under the impression that cross-site user linking only worked with LJ and LJ-clones. Perhaps the FAQ needs to be updated?

[azurelunatic]

It's designed to work with LJ and LJ clones, but by constructing the URL format that works for all clones and using the appropriate userhead if available. Unknown places get a charming little "offsite link" head: exampleusername.

[arethinn]

I had no idea this was possible! This is just the regular user name="" site="" tag?

[azurelunatic]

Yep! Keen, isn't it?

[0jack]

I love this idea, but will all offsite links come with the same little user head as on DW or with some other identification? It would be good to know if one is going off of DW. I saw something go by about Ravelry, but it doesn't use the same URL structure. Any ability to shorthand sites like Etsy and Ravelry is a great idea--fandom and crafties seem to go hand in hand.

[azurelunatic]

Offsite user links are always labeled, either specifically -- like exampleusername or exampleusername -- or with the generic offsite userhead, like exampleusername.

When a specific offsite user link is set up, staff picks an appropriate little image to use, often the site's favicon (see azurelunatic, but sometimes the userhead like on LJ.

[arethinn]

shyfoxling

well holy crap!

(that's right, she CAN be taught!)