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Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote in [site community profile] dw_suggestions2010-09-29 03:04 am

Etsy: user name link and profile external service

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


This suggestion:

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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%)

musyc: Silver flute resting diagonally across sheet music (Default)

[personal profile] musyc 2010-10-15 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
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
matgb: Artwork of 19th century upper class anarchist, text: MatGB (Default)

[personal profile] matgb 2010-10-15 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
matgb: Artwork of 19th century upper class anarchist, text: MatGB (Default)

[personal profile] matgb 2010-10-15 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
musyc: Silver flute resting diagonally across sheet music (Default)

[personal profile] musyc 2010-10-15 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
:) I actually made a suggestion for that very thing (identifying the supported linkyhead wossnames) that hasn't got through the queue yet.